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How Do They Feel? Processing Others’ Emotions in Second Language Discourse
Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Emotion that is implied rather than literally expressed requires the processing of literal and pragmatic information. Processing multiple information types is an easy, fast process in the first language (L1) but can be costlier in a second language (L2), especially when emotional content is involved.
Andrea González‐García Aldariz +2 more
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TEACHING BUSINESS ENGLISH ONLINE. ASSIGNMENT ACTIVITIES AND TESTS IN MOODLE [PDF]
Annals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science, 2021 In many universities around the world, the current pandemic situation confined the academic process to online interactions alone, with no physical presence in a class, the 'face-to-face' classes being held by means of applications or programs that ...
Ioana Claudia HOREA +1 more
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MULTIPLE‐CHOICE CLOZE ITEMS AND THE TEST OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE [PDF]
ETS Research Report Series, 1988 ABSTRACTThis study examined the relation of TOEFL® performance to a widely used variant of the cloze procedure–the multiple‐choice (MC) cloze method. A main objective was to determine if categories of MC cloze items could be identified that related differentially to the various parts of the TOEFL.
Gordon A. Hale +5 more
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Emergent Predication Structure in Hidden State Vectors of Neural Readers
, 2017 A significant number of neural architectures for reading comprehension have recently been developed and evaluated on large cloze-style datasets. We present experiments supporting the emergence of "predication structure" in the hidden state vectors of ...
Gimpel, Kevin +3 more
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Hypothesis Only Baselines in Natural Language Inference [PDF]
, 2018 We propose a hypothesis only baseline for diagnosing Natural Language Inference (NLI). Especially when an NLI dataset assumes inference is occurring based purely on the relationship between a context and a hypothesis, it follows that assessing entailment
Haldar, Aparajita +4 more
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The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the pedagogical impact of integrating cognitive linguistics (CL) into concept‐based language instruction (C‐BLI) for teaching English modal verbs. Eighty‐nine Mandarin‐speaking university learners were assigned to one of three instructional conditions: C‐BLI with CL‐based conceptualizations (C‐BLI‐CL), C‐BLI with non‐CL
Helen Zhao, James P. Lantolf
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Language Testing in AsiaThis study addressed a gap in existing research on Multiple-Choice (MC) cloze tests by focusing on the learners’ perspective, specifically examining the difficulties faced by vocational high school students (VHSs).
Kuo-Zheng Feng
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The role of ESP courses in general English proficiency
Linguistica, 2013 The purpose of the present paper is the study of the interaction between learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP), in particular, English for the Financial Sector, and general English proficiency.
Vesna Cigan, Ljubica Kordić
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Incorporating Structured Commonsense Knowledge in Story Completion
, 2018 The ability to select an appropriate story ending is the first step towards perfect narrative comprehension. Story ending prediction requires not only the explicit clues within the context, but also the implicit knowledge (such as commonsense) to ...
Chen, Jiaao, Chen, Jianshu, Yu, Zhou
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Empowering Active Learning to Jointly Optimize System and User Demands
, 2020 Existing approaches to active learning maximize the system performance by sampling unlabeled instances for annotation that yield the most efficient training.
Gurevych, Iryna +2 more
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