Month: May 2014

Adverb use and language proficiency in young learners’ writing

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Post date 21st May 2014

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

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Post date 21st May 2014

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25 Text Batch Processing Tools Reviewed | Smashing Magazine

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Post date 14th May 2014

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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