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EUROCALL2014: EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION ENDS: 31st May 2014
EUROCALL2014
Groningen, The Netherlands, 20-23 August, 2014
http://www.eurocall2014.nl/
EUROCALL2014 is the 21st annual conference of EUROCALL, the European association of computer-assisted language learning. EUROCALL2014 will be held at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands from 20th to 23rd August 2014.
Early-bird registration ends on 31st May next. To register at the reduced rate, sign up for the conference not later than 31 May. For an outline of the programme, the list of accepted papers, workshops that you can take, and all the registration details, please visit the conference website.
Contact:
Dr S. Jager, ICT in Education, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen
contact: s.jager@rug.nl, + 31 (0) 50-363 5921 / 5263
co-organiser of Eurocall 2014: www.eurocall2014.nl
web: www.rug.nl/staff/s.jager, www.rug.nl/let/ictol
Adverb use and language proficiency in young learners’ writing
Pascual Pérez-Paredes and María Sánchez-Tornel
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 19:2. 2014. iii, 137 pp. (pp. 178–200)
Our research examines the use of general adverbs by learners across grades 5, 6, 9 and 10 in the International Corpus of Crosslinguistic Interlanguage (ICCI) by looking at whether this use increases with age. For our research we use data from the Polish, Spanish and Chinese components in the ICCI, in particular, those from the “food” and “money” topics. Our results show that general adverbs are more widely used as age increases. Statistically significant differences were found between grade 6 and 10 learners across all three L1 groups in terms of the frequency of use of general adverbs, which suggests that 10-graders integrate adverbs in their discourse in ways that differ from those in previous years. This study, together with Pérez-Paredes & Díez-Bedmar’s (2012), suggests that learners below grade 9 are more unlikely to use adverbs.
Keywords: International Corpus of Crosslinguistic Interlanguage, interlanguage development, age, learner writing, general adverbs
See on Scoop.it – Applied linguistics and knowledge engineering
Have you ever fainted from the sheer idea of having to find and replace text in millions of files? Have you ever felt helpless because you needed to search and replace different data 50 times at once? Have you ever lost original files while doing normal text processing tasks? If you’ve found yourself in any of these situations, then it is time to feel a bit tougher, at least mentally. Below, we review 25 useful text batch processing tools. These tools will help you search and replace text in millions of files in the blink of an eye. Many of them even allow you to use regular expressions to improve your search and replace operations, saving you precious hours on day-to-day text-processing tasks. These tools can be used by programmers and developers, novice and experienced alike, to perform repetitive text-processing tasks. At the end of this post, you’ll find a table summarizing the features of the tools reviewed here, which will help you decide on the best tool for your particular purpose. You many want to take a look at 15 Useful Batch Image Processors as well.
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