This study was an attempt to investigate what metacognitive strategies are specifically employed by English learners when it comes to different speaking task types.60 students at advanced level (female) were randomly selected and given an OPT as a test of homogeneity. They were assigned to experimental and control groups. The MS questionnaire (Oxford, 1990) was also administered to see what MS ...

nowadays novel has a dominant role in literature owing to its special capability to demonstrate the social dilemmas and stories. the main factor which makes a novel attractive is proportionality and symmetry of dialogue with characters and the story. in the case of narratology of a story, an alerted analyzer illustrates premier features of the story with employing narrative mechanisms and story...

Task  repetition  is  now  considered  as  an  important  task-based  implementation  variable  which can affect complexity, accuracy, and fluency of L2 speech. However, in order to move towards theorizing  the  role  of  task  repetition  in  second  language  acquisition,  it  is  necessary  that individual variables be taken into account. The present study aimed to investigate the way task r...

This study asked whether contextual abstractness would affect productive locative case marking in 3to 6year-old Hungarian-speaking children. A narrative elicitation task examined locative case production in both concrete (e.g., IN the garden) and abstract (e.g., IN trouble) contexts. We found that 3-year-olds were less accurate in the abstract condition than controls. By contrast, there was no ...

Language understanding (LU) and dialogue policy learning are two essential components in conversational systems. Human-human dialogues are not wellcontrolled and often random and unpredictable due to their own goals and speaking habits. This paper proposes a rolebased contextual model to consider different speaker roles independently based on the various speaking patterns in the multiturn dialo...

Learning dialogue management models poses significant challenges. In a complex taskoriented domain in which information is exchanged via parallel, interleaved dialogue and task streams, effective dialogue management models should be able to make dialogue moves based on both the dialogue and the task context. This paper presents a data-driven approach to learning dialogue management models that ...

1. introduction some narratologists like kristeva and genette believe that if a text remembers another text, a dialogue has taken place between them and an inter-textual (or trans-textual) relationship has thus been established. some also believe that there is always a relationship between texts. among them, genette accompanied his claims by a theory and opened a new way before the narratologis...

This study explores interand intra-speaker variation in use of timemanagement strategies. How do speakers differ in their use of pauses, fillers and other resources aimed at managing time while they plan their next contribution? Taking a rather qualitative approach, we describe individual speakers’ production, using a small limited-domain corpus of task-oriented German speech. It is assumed tha...