The purpose of this study was to identify the grammatical errors and analyze sources committed by students in writing cause effect paragraphs. This research used a mixed-method design as design. data were collected through document collection mid-term tests final tests. subjects two classes English Language Education Program. results showed that types students' omissions 54 (44%), misformation ...

OBJECTIVE To share with potential authors tips for communicating their ideas more clearly in a scholarly manuscript. DESCRIPTION Communicating scientific, technical, or medical information so that readers can understand its meaning requires logical organization and proper use of language. These 30 tips review basic English grammar and suggest ways authors can clearly and concisely present the...

The effect of error feedback on the accuracy of output task types such as editing task, text reconstruction task, picture cued writing task, and dictogloss task, has not been clearly explored. Following arguments concerning that the combination of both corrective feedback and output makes it difficult to determine whether their effects were in combination or alone, the purpose of the present st...

Writing assistance systems, from simple spelling checkers to more complex grammar and readability analyzers, can be helpful aids to nonnative writers of English. However, many writing assistance systems have two disadvantages. First, they are not designed to encourage skills learning and independence in their users; instead, users may begin to use the system as a crutch. Second, they use a “one...

Linguists and scholars have been studying the influence of English language competency on numerous domains such as academic performance employability for many years. While early researchers suggested that proficiency did not predict high ratings employment aptitude, evidence now shows is a cutting-edge asset in areas success highly competitive demanding industries various fields specialization....

Various word-processing system have been developed to identify grammatical errors and mark learners’ essays. However, they are not specifically developed for Malaysian ESL (English as a second language) learners. A marking tool which is capable to identify errors in ESL writing for these learners is very much needed. Though there are numerous techniques adopted in grammar checking and automated...

The augmented transition network (ATN) is a formalism for writing parsing grammars that has been much used in Artificial Intelligence and Computational Linguistics. A few researchers have also used ATNs for writing grammars for generating sentences. Previously , however, either generation ATNs did not have the same semantics as parsing ATNs, or they required an auxiliary mechanism to determine ...

The GF Eclipse Plugin provides an integrated development environment (IDE) for developing grammars in the Grammatical Framework (GF). Built on top of the Eclipse Platform, it aids grammar writing by providing instant syntax checking, semantic warnings and cross-reference resolution. Inline documentation and a library browser facilitate the use of existing resource libraries, and compilation and...

This study presents the results from a CALL system of Runyakitara (RU_CALL). The major objective was to provide an electronic language learning environment that can enable learners with mother tongue deficiencies to enhance their knowledge of grammar and acquire writing skills in Runyakitara. The system currently focuses on nouns and employs natural language processing in order to generate a la...

For many NLP applications (e.g. generation, machine translation, etc.), large linguistic resources are needed. These resources include (but are not limited to) lexicons and grammars. The latter were originally written by hand. This task of grammar writing was requiring many human resources. Plus, the coherence between the grammatical structures was hard to guarantee (and maintain), as the numbe...