To acquire a language, learners need to be skillful at the four skills namely: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Among them, writing is usually considered complex skill learn. This study aimed investigate second-year English majored students’ perception of essay problems encountered solutions overcome these problems. The participants this are 44 second year students public university in...

In this study, we investigate low level predictors from audio and writing modalities for the separation and identification of socially dominant leaders and experts within a study group. We use a multimodal dataset of situated computer assisted group learning tasks: Groups of three high-school students solve a number of mathematical problems in two separate sessions. In order to automatically id...

This paper presents a pilot study of the use of phrasal Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) techniques to identify and correct writing errors made by learners of English as a Second Language (ESL). Using examples of mass noun errors found in the Chinese Learner Error Corpus (CLEC) to guide creation of an engineered training set, we show that application of the SMT paradigm can capture errors ...

Abstract. This study aimed to describes students’ writing recount problem. research used descriptive method and was conducted at SMP Negeri 20 Pontianak. It revealed the most serious problem in text area of grammar. found when students wrote which applied past tense with regular or irregular verb. The second came from vocabulary aspect. happened demonstrated state main idea include choosing wor...