Informed by a bridging activities model (Thorne & Reinhardt, 2008), the authors designed and implemented a series of activities using Facebook to develop elementary level Korean learners’ socio-pragmatic awareness of the use of Korean honorifics. Nine students took part in the activities, which involved student collaboration to create five invented profiles and shared resources, guided analysis...

There has been an increased interest in data generation approaches to grammatical error correction (GEC) using pseudo data. However, these suffer from several issues that make them inconvenient for real-world deployment including a demand large amounts of training On the other hand, some errors based on rules may not necessarily require amount if GEC models can realize generalization. This stud...

â  â  â  reasons of differences in grammatical opinions among the ancients â â â â â â â  ryadh alsawad * â  marzieh ghorbankhani ** â  â  abstract â â â  the most important characteristic of the rules of arabic language is their extent and diversity, so that they are difficult for learners to manage and learn. there are different reasons that play role in formation of this diversity. some reas...

We describe preliminary data from two studies aimed at investigating the psychometric properties and validity of newly developed measures of morphological knowledge and skills in Russian, namely, the Word Structure subtest, and the Test of Morphological Awareness, in two samples of young Russian-speaking children. Overall, both instruments demonstrated good psychometric properties when analyzed...

In our paper we introduce Grammatically Aware Regular expression (GARE) and describe its usage using examples from moral consequences retrieval task. GARE is an extension to the regular expression concept that overcomes many of the difficulties with traditional regexp by adding Normalization (e.g., searching all grammatical forms with basic form of a verb or adjective is possible) or POS awaren...