Like Finding A Needle In A Haystack: Annotating The American National Corpus For Idiomatic Expressions,
2010
Montclair State University
Like Finding A Needle In A Haystack: Annotating The American National Corpus For Idiomatic Expressions, Laura Street, Nathan Michalov, Rachel Silverstein, Michael Reynolds, Lurdes Ruela, Felicia Flowers, Angela Talucci, Priscilla Pereira, Gabriella Morgon, Samantha Siegel, Marci Barousse, Antequa Anderson, Tashom Carroll, Anna Feldman
Department of Linguistics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
This paper presents the details of a pilot study in which we tagged portions of the American National Corpus (ANC) for idioms composed of verb-noun constructions, prepositional phrases, and subordinate clauses. The three data sets we analyzed included 1, 500-sentence samples from the spoken, the non-fiction, and the fiction portions of the ANC. This paper provides the details of the tagset we developed, the motivation behind our choices, and the inter-annotator agreement measures we deemed appropriate for this task. In tagging the ANC for idiomatic expressions, our annotators achieved a high level of agreement (< .80) on the tags but a low level of agreement (>.00) on what constituted an …
A Computer-Aided Error Analysis Of Multi-Word Units In A Malaysian Learner English Corpus.,
2010
Universiti Malaya
A Computer-Aided Error Analysis Of Multi-Word Units In A Malaysian Learner English Corpus., Lee Yit Sim
Student Works (2010-2019)
This is a study on multi-word unit (MWU) errors made by Malaysian English learners. The major approaches used in the analysis of learners’ writings are: error analysis and corpus-based approach. The findings from this study reveal that learners have problems with these MWUs: modal structures , infinitive structures , ‘adjective + noun’ collocations , and connectors . An analysis of these structures shows that the common erroneous patterns in these structures can generally be categorized as ‘overgeneralization’, ‘misformation’, ‘misselection’, and ‘distortion’. The causes of such errors are both interlingual as well as intralingual. Besides these factors, this study also highlighted …
A Library And Its Community: Exploring Perceptions Of Collaboration,
2010
Portland State University
A Library And Its Community: Exploring Perceptions Of Collaboration, Phoebe Vincenza Daurio
Dissertations and Theses
This study explores perceptions of interorganizational collaboration through an investigation of the opinions and actions of a public library and three community-based organizations. Interorganizational collaboration is often viewed as an effective strategy for accomplishing objectives that would not otherwise be possible with a single organization. Particularly for complex societal issues such as adult literacy, researchers and practitioners believe collaboration between organizations is necessary in order to achieve desired outcomes. Public libraries are engaging in collaborations also to extend their reach, establish the library’s relevance, increase community involvement, and advocate for their position as a community asset.
This thesis is a …
Planteamientos Colaborativos En La Didáctica De La Composición Desde Modelos Procesuales,
2010
CUNY New York City College of Technology
Planteamientos Colaborativos En La Didáctica De La Composición Desde Modelos Procesuales, David Sánchez-Jiménez
Publications and Research
El presente artículo parte de una revisión del modelo tradicional de la enseñanza de la escritura en la clase de LE entendida como producto. Desde este punto de partida, se evidencian las ventajas de adoptar una escritura colaborativa basada en la consideración del texto como un proceso en construcción que pasa por diferentes fases creativas y en un modelo pedagógico que centra su atención en el alumno dentro de la práctica escrita.
SUMMARY: In the initial part of this article, we begin with a review of the traditional model of teaching composition in a foreign language class in which writing …
La Adquisición De La Lengua Extranjera Española Por Estudiantes Filipinos: Análisis Descriptivo Y Explicativo De La Interlengua,
2010
CUNY New York City College of Technology
La Adquisición De La Lengua Extranjera Española Por Estudiantes Filipinos: Análisis Descriptivo Y Explicativo De La Interlengua, David Sánchez-Jiménez
Publications and Research
El presente artículo hace en su primera parte una breve revisión teórica del Análisis de Errores y del de Interlengua. En la segunda, se realiza un análisis de Interlengua de las producciones oral y escrita de una estudiante filipina de nivel B2 de la Universidad de Filipinas, presentada mediante la división ya clásica de la competencia comunicativa establecida por Canale. En la conclusión, esta interlengua individual se conecta con los trabajos de Análisis de Errores e Interlengua realizados con estudiantes filipinos y de otras nacionalidades
A Structural And Functional Analysis Of Codeswitching In Mi Vida Gitana 'My Gypsy Life,' A Bilingual Play,
2010
Portland State University
A Structural And Functional Analysis Of Codeswitching In Mi Vida Gitana 'My Gypsy Life,' A Bilingual Play, Gustavo Javier Fernandez
Dissertations and Theses
The present study analyzed the language in the script of the bilingual play Mi Vida Gitana 'My Gypsy Life' (Malán, 2006) in order to better understand issues relating to codeswitching (CS). The analysis was done from a structural and a functional perspective and utilized various models developed by renowned CS scholars.
For the structural analysis, I utilized concepts and ideas put forth in the three-tiered typology created by Muysken (2000) and the Matrix Language Frame model developed by Myers-Scotton (1993). The results of this portion of the study showed that some form of CS, whether occurring between turns or within …
