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Showing 1 to 20 of 184 for “"Target language"”.
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The effect of target language proficiency on deception detection among undergraduate students
I examined the impact of targets’ language proficiency on observers’ lie detection accuracy, discrimination, bias, and confidence. Observers (N = 132) were randomly assigned to make deception judgments about targets (N = 56) from four proficiency groups (i.e., native, advanced, intermediate, and …
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Pragmatic competence in the target language : a study of Iranian learners of English
… on the importance of pragmatic competence in the target language as well the introduction of teaching methodologies about the inclusion of pragmatics in language classrooms in last two decades, there are a number of uncertainties which are associated with the concept of pragmatic competence in the …
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The effect of supplemental homework tasks involving referential questions on learners' target language linguistic output and accuracy
… three consecutive levels of French as a foreign language at the university of Arizona. Gain scores were computed and statistical tests were conducted on these gain scores for significance. A follow-up study examined the performance of selected high and low achievers within groups and across …
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The effects of illustration inclusion, placement, and type, and target language experience on foreign language learners' comprehension of text
Both first language (L1) and second language (L2) reading research have suggested that illustrations facilitate comprehension, though results have been disparate. Moreover, L2 research has been minimal and many variables shown to be important in the L1 literature have not been manipulated in L2 …
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A triple case study of two Saudi and one Italian language learners' self-perceptions of target language (TL) speaking proficiency
… ways in which two Saudis and one Italian English language learner (ELL) came to speaking proficiency according to his or her own perceptions and observations. The researcher conducted interviews of the two Saudi ELLs face-to-face and the one Italian ELL through Skype by asking 15 open-ended …
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The effects of task, language of assessment, and target language experience on foreign language learners performance on reading comprehension tests
Current foreign language reading research is disparate in nature. Researchers use a variety of assessment tasks which may or may not be comparable across studies. Some tasks are carried out in the subjects' native language while others are performed in the target language. Furthermore, the …
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Classroom based performance-feedback influencing advanced English I students´ speaking skill in the target Language at the Foreign Language Department of the University of El Salvador
… the influence on students’ speaking skill in the Target Language at the Advanced Intensive English I courses at the Foreign Language Department of the University of El Salvador. The study showed a correlation between Classroom-based performance feedback and students´ speaking proficiency in the …
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The use of the target language/second language and the use of the first language: four case studies of German and Spanish teachers in modern foreign language post-primary classrooms in the Republic of Ireland
… role and importance of teaching a modern foreign language mainly through the target language has been an issue of considerable debate. Current best practice suggests that use of the target language as the principal language of the classroom is an important element in creating an effective learning …
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A tree-to-tree model for statistical machine translation
… tree-to-tree approach, first the source-language input is parsed into a syntactic tree structure; then the source-language tree is mapped to a target-language tree. This kind of approach has several advantages. For one, parsing the input generates valuable information about its meaning. …
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World Language Teachers' Preparation, Beliefs, and Instruction in Central Florida
… versus instructors of ESL and foreign languages, or instructors of only foreign languages; (3) the relationship between instructors* academic preparation and target language use in class; and (4) the relationship between instructors* pedagogical beliefs about second language learning …
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Improving Parameter-Efficient Cross-Lingual Transfer for Low-Resource Languages
… development and real-world adoption of natural language processing models in recent years underscores the imperative to develop such models in different languages. This endeavour aims to enable access to emerging technologies to a broad spectrum of individuals, irrespective of their language. …
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Translingual grammar induction for conversational systems
… one-way translation system from some other language to the target language as prior information. It then infers a grammar for the target language. We demonstrate the system's effectiveness on a weather domain and on a travel domain. We automatically induced Chinese and French grammars for …
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Code Switching in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
… of the most controversial issues in foreign language teaching and learning over many years has been the role of the students’ L1 in L2 target language education. While a monolingual approach prohibited the use of the target language in L2 classroom, researchers have reexamined the issues …
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Copilot Tutor: Automated Software Engineering Practice Augmented with LLMs
In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have become more ubiquitous in the workplace. In software engineering, they are often realized as “copilots" which produce code given a prompt or existing code. Programmers using these tools to increase their coding productivity need to be proficient in …
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Cross-Lingual Word Sense Disambiguation for Low-Resource Hybrid Machine Translation
… when translating from a resource- rich language into an under-resourced one, especially when relatively little bitext is avail- able. In CL-WSD, we perform word sense disambiguation, considering the senses of a word to be its possible translations into some target language, rather than …
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Meta-metaprogramming
Programming languages researchers have developed many advanced tools that promise to greatly ease software engineering. Yet even conceptually simple tools are expensive to implement fully due to the complexity of the target language, and standard techniques tie an implementation to a particular …
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On translating the cultural aspects in Tayeb Saleh’s season of migration to the north
… in Arabic, and was translated into many other languages, thus requiring a specific type of knowledge to be held by the translator in order to recode the novel from the source language to the target language. It is easy to simply take a word and find its equivalent in the target language, then …
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Written Convergence in the Greek Pentateuch: Studies at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
… of the product as Greek discourse. 2\. Unique target language items that generate inferences in the product are one sign of macro-structural planning. 3\. The product contains unique target language items that generate inferences. 4\. So, the translators monitored the performance of their …
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Effects of Narrative Video Script Advance Organizer Strategies Used to Introduce Video in the Foreign Language Classroom
… participant comprehension of content in foreign language videos using 2 different advance organizer (AO) strategies. The students were 50 college students enrolled in 3 sections of an intermediate-level Spanish course at the United States Air Force Academy.</p> <p>In the collaborative group …
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