Abstract This study examined students’ ability to select relevant ideas from multiple online texts and integrate those in their written products. Students ( N = 162) used a web-based platform complete an inquiry task which they read three presenting different perspectives on computer gaming wrote article for school magazine the issue based these texts. selected two snippets each text during rea...

The paper outlines a text analytic project in progress on a corpus of entries in the historical burgh and council registers from Aberdeen, Scotland. Some preliminary output of the analysis is described. The registers run in a near-unbroken sequence form 1398 to the present day; the early volumes are a UNESCO UK listed cultural artefact. The study focusses on a set of transcribed pages from 1530...

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Both as a corpus and as a source of texts for corpora the Web offers significant benefits in its virtually comprehensive coverage of major languages, content domains and written text types, yet its usefulness is limited by the generally unknown origin and reliability of online texts and by the sheer amount of “noise” on the Web. This paper describes and evaluates linguistic methods and computin...

among the linguistic resources for creating grammatical metaphor, nominalization rewords   processes and properties metaphorically as nouns within the experiential metafunction of language. following halliday's (1998a) classification of grammatical metaphor, the current study investigated nominalization exploited in an english applied linguistics textbook and its corresponding persian translati...

We evaluated the effectiveness of new indices of text comprehension in measuring relative text difficulty. Specifically, we examined the efficacy of automated indices produced by the web-based computational tool Coh-Metrix. In an analysis of 60 instructional science texts, we divided texts into groups that were considered to be more or less difficult to comprehend. The defining criteria were ba...

this study compared 2 main approaches to readability assessment. thequantitative approach applied idea density based on part of speech tagging andcompared 3 sets of text types (i.e., narrative, expository, and argumentative) withrespect to their ease of reading. the qualitative approach was done throughdeveloping questionnaires measuring intermediate efl learners’ perceptions oncontent, motivat...

The paper discusses the basic principles for describing properties of texts to be stored in a corpus and suggests the standard that is used in the majority of corpora developed at the University of Leeds and can be potentially employed for describing texts in any corpus collecting activity. The standard defines the minimal subset of tags and attributes that are necessary for describing texts st...