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Words, clauses, sentences, and T-units in learner language: Precise and objective units of measure?

Journal of the European Second Language Association, 2020
In research on learner language complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF), syntactic complexity is often studied with quantitative measures based on words, clauses, sentences, and T-units.
Taina Mylläri
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LEARNERS TYPOLOGY: LANGUAGE ACQUIRERS VS LANGUAGE LEARNERS

Focus on Language Education and Research, 2022
Krashen’s Monitor Model has been arousing considerable debates for many years and learningacquisition distinction described by the author has become the subject of criticism from both researchers and teachers. But the controversy which is revealed in the Monitor Model and in the follow up literature is not resolved yet.
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Language Learner Strategies

Working Papers in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, 2015
Language Learner Strategies, an edited volume born from a series of meetings at the International Association of Applied Linguistics Congress in the early 2000s, provides a comprehensive overview into the past, present, and proposed future of the field ...
Sera Hernandez
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Odnos in motiviranost mlajsih ucencev do ucenja tujega jezika [PDF]

, 2012
This paper focuses on young foreign language learners’ attitudes and motivations. An overview is given of the main issues in this research area, based on key European studies.
Mihaljevic Djigunovic, Jelena
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Moniverbiset konstruktiot ja oppijansuomen kompleksisuus kielitaidon eri tasoilla

Lähivõrdlusi, 2023
"Verb constructions and complexity across proficiency levels in learner Finnish". Learner language development can be analysed by measuring complexity, accuracy and fluency. Complexity, our focus here, can be defined as the range and sophistication
Taina Mylläri
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Learners' Languages

Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2022
In "Backprop as functor", the authors show that the fundamental elements of deep learning -- gradient descent and backpropagation -- can be conceptualized as a strong monoidal functor Para(Euc)$\to$Learn from the category of parameterized Euclidean spaces to that of learners, a category developed explicitly to capture parameter update and ...
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Learner Corpus Research Meets Chinese as a Second Language Acquisition: Achievements and Challenges

Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Orientale, 2022
The article sheds light on Chinese as a Second Language Learner Corpus Research, emphasising advances and lacks in this field. First, the paper describes the potential of learner corpora in the investigation of learner language. Second, it provides an
Iurato, Alessia
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Promotion of Student Autonomy in Learning the German Language. University Case Study

Darnioji daugiakalbystė, 2020
The concept of learner-centered teaching is very popular in modern foreign language didactics. Specialized literature emphasizes repeatedly how important it is to enable individual and self-directed learning processes and to support them with advice.
Žvaliauskienė Sidona
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Evaluative Language in Lithuanian Students’ English Writing. A Study of ‘Important’ and ‘Interesting’

Respectus Philologicus, 2016
Critical thinking, as one of the competences to be developed at universities, requires the ability to evaluate. Though different parts of speech can fall under the category of evaluative language, adjectives are among the most frequently used means to ...
Lina Bikelienė
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Corpus of Academic Learner English (CALE): A new corpus at the intersection of corpus linguistics and English for academic purposes

Literacy Trek, 2020
Offering insights into varieties of English language, corpus compilation practices and corpus-based research have great potential to enhance the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP).
Ayşe Şahin Kızıl
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