Etymology, Contextual Pragmatic Clues, and Lexical Knowledge in L2 Idioms Learning

Aspectual Shifts: Grammatical and Pragmatic Knowledge in L2 Acquisition

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pragmatic knowledge in university entrance exam for english majors

abstract pragmatics is the study of communicative action in its sociocultural context. communicative action includes not only using speech acts (such as apologizing, complaining, complimenting, and requesting), but also engaging in different types of discourse and participating in speech events of varying length and complexity. the present study aimed to investigate the assessment of pragm...

assessing metacognitive awareness and learning strategies as positive predictors in promoting l2 learners’ reading comprehension

the purpose of this thesis was to investigate how differently metacognitive, cognitive, and social/affective strategies affect l2 learners’ reading comprehension. to this end, the study employed a quasi-experimental design with a placement test as a proficiency test to find the homogeneity of groups. three classes were randomly selected as the experimental groups (n =90), and each class was tau...

Lexical gaps and idioms in machine translation

A bstract This paper deserihes the treatment of lexical gaps, collocation information and idioms in the English to Portuguese machine translation system PORTUGA. The perspective is strictly bilingual, in the sense that all problems referenced above are considered to behmg to the tranM'cr phase, and not, as in other systems, to analysis or generation. The solution presented invokes a parser fi}r...

Reusable Lexical Representations for Idioms

In this paper I introduce (1) a technically simple and highly theory-independent way for lexically representing flexible idiomatic expressions, and (2) a procedure to incorporate these lexical representations in a wide variety of NLP systems. The method is based on Structural EQuivalence Classes for Idioms and therefore called the SEQCI method. I illustrate the approach using the Rosetta MT sys...