We present experiments that show the influence of native language on lexical choice when producing text in another language – in this particular case English. We start from the premise that non-native English speakers will choose lexical items that are close to words in their native language. This leads us to an etymologybased representation of documents written by people whose mother tongue is...

We apply Support Vector Machines to differentiate between 11 native languages in the 2013 Native Language Identification Shared Task. We expand a set of common language identification features to include cognate interference and spelling mistakes. Our best results are obtained with a classifier which includes both the cognate and the misspelling features, as well as word unigrams, word bigrams,...

The study indicates the interferences occurred by Kaurnese and Rejangnese students in pronouncing English sounds factors that affect pronunciation interference of sounds. respondents were ten Education Study Program. They are five whose L1 is Rejangnese. researcher applied a qualitative approach conducted case design. instruments used to collect data observation reading list words interviews ab...

Bilinguals are better able to perceive speech-in-noise in their native compared to their non-native language. This benefit is thought to be due to greater use of higher-level, linguistic context in the native language. Previous studies showing this have used sentences and do not allow us to determine which level of language contributes to this context benefit. Here, we used a new paradigm that ...

in view of native/nonnative language teacher dichotomy, different characteristics have been assigned to these 2 groups. the dichotomy has been the source of different actions and measures to clarify the positive and negative points of being (non)native teachers. in recent years, many researchers have revisited this dichotomy. the challenge to the dichotomy can be a source of motivation to explo...