Written and spoken data produced by learners has always been a key resource for the study of second language acquisition (SLA). However, for a long time the data used was rather artifi cial, i.e. resulting from highly controlled language tasks , and therefore not necessarily a refl ection of what learners do in more natural communication contexts. In addition, the data samples were usually quit...

This paper investigates the production of /h/ by French learners of German in comparison to German native speakers. Anecdotally, French speakers are assumed to delete /h/ when speaking German. We investigate the extent to which learners have problems producing /h/ and if advanced learners show different production patterns than beginners. When French speakers produce /h/ our analysis focuses on...

a proficiency test is one of the language tests with the goal of assessing/evaluating the language learners' achievement. this test does not deal with language teaching and learning methods. in fact, in a proficiency test, we concentrate on determining the level of the testee’s ability in applying language at the time of administrating the test and for the test taker, it is not important t...

to be able to reach the level of ultimate attainment in the second language, learners need to acquire not only the grammar of the l2 but also the language processing mechanisms involved in the comprehension of sentences in real time. contrary to its importance, very little is known yet about online l2 processing. this study examines whether advanced iranian learners of english reactivate disloc...

a curriculum deals with all the aspects of language learning including experience and purpose of learning, evaluation, and teacher-student relationship. an accurately planned curriculum for instruction can basically guarantee the success of an educational course. the present study is aimed at introducing nation & macalister language curriculum design (2010). doing so, the stages and principles ...

We present recent developments of Korektor, a statistical spell checking system. In addition to lexicon, Korektor uses language models to find real-word errors, detectable only in context. The models and error probabilities, learned from error corpora, are also used to suggest the most likely corrections. Korektor was originally trained on a small error corpus and used language models extracted...

this study investigated iranian english language learners’ use of circumlocution for culture-specific referents. a discourse completion test (dct) was designed in english and persian, consisting of items dealing with iranian culture-specific notions and distributed among 3 groups. the persian language group received the persian version, whereas the english language learners, divided into high a...