Verb conjugation errors by learners of Korean

by Korean EFL College Learners

Park, Sohee. 2003. Lexical Collocation Use by Korean EFL College learners. SNU Working Papers in English Linguistics and Language 2, 19-40. This study investigated Korean EFL college students' lexical collocation use. The specific research questions were as follows: 1) Which factors affect the collocational competence?; 2) Which collocation types are the most problematic to Korean EFL college l...

acquisition of english determinative descriptions by persian efl learners

abstract since heubners (1985) pioneering study, there have been many studies on (mis) use/ non-use of articles by l2 learners from article-less and article languages. the present study investigated how persian l2 learners of english produce and interpret english definite descriptions and demonstrative descriptions. it was assumed that definite and demonstrative descriptions share the same cen...

Correcting Grammatical Verb Errors

Verb errors are some of the most common mistakes made by non-native writers of English but some of the least studied. The reason is that dealing with verb errors requires a new paradigm; essentially all research done on correcting grammatical errors assumes a closed set of triggers – e.g., correcting the use of prepositions or articles – but identifying mistakes in verbs necessitates identifyin...

EFL learners' learning of English verb argument structure

Sequence Tagging for Verb Conjugation in Romanian

Verbs in Romanian sometimes manifest local irregularities in the form of alternating letters. We present a sequence tagging based method for learning stem alternations and ending sequences. Supervised training is based on a morphological dictionary, with a few regular expression paradigms encoded by hand. Our best model improves upon previous machine learning approaches to Romanian verb conjuga...