Reid on the priority of natural language

A Stylistic and Proficiency-based Approach to EFL Learners’ Performance Inconsistency

Performance deficiencies and inconsistencies among SLA or FL learners can be attributed to variety of sources including both systemic (i.e., language issues) and individual variables.  Contrary to a rich background, the literature still suffers from a gap as far as delving into the issue from language proficiency and learning style is concerned. To fill the gap, this study addressed EFL learner...

On the Relationship between Language Learning Strategies and Personality Types among Iranian EFL Learners

In recent years, language-learning research has been more concerned with factors that may affect the choice of learning strategies among learners. In studies conducted by Cohen (1990), Ehrman and Oxford (1995), MacIntyre and Gardner (1989) and Reid (1987), these factors have been identified as motivation, gender, learning style, previous experience, and personality type. This study attempts to ...

The Relationship between Learning Style and Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners' Speaking Performance

There are a number of factors which influence the success of learning foreign languageincluding students’ learning styles. This study investigated language learning styles of IranianEFL learners and their class achievement. To this end, sixty female intermediate learners ofinstruction and different ages (15-25), studying at a language institute in Rasht city wereasked to take part in the study....

Conventional Natural Language Processing in the NWO Priority Programme on Language and Speech Technology October 1996 Deliverables

A Discrete Model Of Degree Concept In Natural Language

Degree words in natural lauguage, such as 'often' ~md %ometinies,' do not ha.ve (ieln)t,~tions in the reid world. This causes some interesting clmracteristics tor degree words. For exami)h; ~ the correspondence between the. English word 'often' :rod the intuitively corresponding aa>nese word is not ebvhms. This paper proposes a conceptual representat;ion to describe a wide range of linguistic p...