Grammar testing is discussed in the context of grammar engineering (i.e., software engineering for grammars). We propose a generalisation of the known rule coverage for grammars, that is, contextdependent branch coverage. We investigate grammar testing, especially coverage analysis, test set generation, and integration of testing and grammar transformations. Grammar recovery is chosen as a subf...

Teacher language awareness and its relationship to pedagogical practice (Andrews, 2003) have been identified as significant contributors to the teaching of grammar. Various TESOL programs teach pedagogical and theoretical grammar in different ways and some focus on specific approaches to grammar teaching, which include systemic functional grammar, transformational grammar, traditional grammar a...

This work extends a semi-automatic grammar induction approach previously proposed in [1]. We investigate the use of Information Gain (IG) in place of Mutual Information (MI) for grammar induction based on an unannotated training corpus. Experiments using the ATIS-3 training corpus indicate that the use of IG led to better precision and recall of desired semantic categories and at earlier stages...

It has been shown in the past that the real part of the ǫ/ǫ ratio is particularly sensitive to anomalous gauge couplings that modify the Standard Model Lagrangian. Due to the loose bounds on these couplings coming from low energy processes and to the poor sensitivity of hadron colliders to couplings such as ∆g 1 , it has been argued that anomalous couplings could still produce an enhancement of...

The status of English grammar teaching in English teaching has weakened and even once disappeared in part English class; until the late 1980s, foreign English teachers had a consistent view of the importance of grammar teaching. In recent years, more and more domestic scholars begin to think about the situation of China and explore the grammar teaching method. This article will review the expli...

As second language (L2) research adapts to the dynamics of multimodal instruction, researchers are exploring role captioning and textual enhancement (TE) on learner development. The present experiment assesses differential effects textually enhanced captions learners’ elicited imitation L2 Spanish grammar. Twenty-eight English-speaking intermediate learners saw 3 videos that focused gustar-type...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of using Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) on the learners’ achievement in L2 grammar and reading in an EFL context and to further  investigate  whether  the  students’  classroom  performances  would  predict  their  final exam  results.  To  conduct  this  study,  two  classes,  each  containing  30  female  students,  were selected  among ...

In an attempt to dispel the persisting fallacy that an individual’s grammar knowledge is indicative of the way they put this knowledge into practice, this study seeks to highlight the inconsistency which resides between one’s competence and performance in the domain of conjunctions. It aims to shed light on the discrepancy which lies between the knowledge and production of conjunctions. The res...