Discourse measures for Basque summary grading

In the context of Learning Technologies, the need to be able to assess the learning and domain comprehension in open-ended learner responses has been present in artificial intelligence and education since its beginnings. The advantage of using summaries is that they allow teachers to diagnose comprehension and the amount of information remembered from text in the learning process. This study addresses the issue of automatically obtaining overall discourse scores from surface discourse measures for Basque language. Global measures have been studied for cohesion, adequacy and use of language. The approach taken was to estimate the presence of the automatically gathered surface discourse measures in expert grading decisions in cohesion, adequacy and use of language. As a consequence, three grading decision-making regression models were obtained to estimate overall grades from text written in Basque. Next, the obtained regression models were tested in corpus-containing summaries written by learners with different degrees of summarisation maturity. The results show that the obtained grading frameworks significantly reflect human decisions and are able to discriminate summarisation maturity differences.     

Phonological awareness and reading speed deficits in reading disabled Greek‐speaking children

There is evidence that phonological awareness skills secure decoding ability and that phonological deficits underlie failure to acquire adequate word recognition. Slow word‐reading rate may be an additional defining characteristic of reading disability. The present study aimed to investigate whether: (1) reading disabled (RD) Greek‐speaking children showed reading accuracy and reading speed deficits relative to chronological age‐matched controls (CAC) and reading age‐matched controls (RAC); (2) they showed phonological deficits relative to the two control groups who do not present reading difficulties; and (3) they showed reading comprehension deficits over and above any word reading deficits.

Results suggested that the reading accuracy of the RD group was predictably weaker than that of the CAC group but equivalent to that of the RAC group. However, the reading speed of the RD group was significantly slower than the RAC group, who showed the same single word reading speed as the CAC group.

Slow and laboured decoding was found to compromise the reading comprehension of the RD group, whose listening comprehension performance was as good as the two other groups. The RD children performed poorly on phonological awareness tasks and naming speed. Naming speed was not an independent core feature of reading difficulties in the Greek language but was associated with a general phonological deficit.

It is recommended that diagnostic assessments for children with reading difficulties in Greek should include phonological awareness, single word reading and pseudoword reading tasks that measure both accuracy and speed.     

语言教学中的文化差异及文化导入

语言的传统教学方法虽然给学生打下了比较扎实的语言知识,但固不了解所学语言的文化,造成丈化休克。本文对“文化”内涵进行了研究,分析了语言和文化的相互制约、相互影响的关系,并从语义文化、语构文化和语用丈化三个方面阐述了语言教学中文化背景知识导入的必要性,以便更好地促进语言教学。     

语用观照下的对外汉语课型

针对我国对外汉语教学课型的设置与特征,从基础性研究角度出发,以语用学的理论对其重新加以观照与分析,并确定其内在的相互关系与影响,意在帮助教师确立语言语用观引导下的课型意识,从而指导教学活动的有效实施。     

浅谈如何提高英语听力

听力教学在英语教学中占重要的地位。听力是一门交际性、实践性很强的课程，也是外语教学中不易突破的难点。分析学生听力存在的障碍，有助于教师有的放矢，有效提高学生听力技能、技巧。     

论析《文心雕龙》的文学语言观

《文心雕龙》的文学语言观建立在杂文学观念的基础之上。刘勰认为文学语言起源于人的创造而具有社会性,“文”、“笔”之中的语言只要情志充实而可信、言辞巧妙而有文采就是文学语言;文学语言要求在内容传达上要有风骨、在运用形式上要有“三文”之美,是质和文、情和采的统一体。     

中美大学课程国际化的比较分析

美国的大学课程国际化在二战之后得到迅速、有效地发展，许多经验与教训可供我们借鉴。试图从法规政策、课程设置、外语教学三个方面对中美大学课程国际化问题作一简单的比较分析。     

海南平面设计本土视觉语言研究

海南本土视觉语言在平面设计中所反映的文化特征缺乏传统内涵。根据海南平面设计现状,针对海南地域元素挖掘与转化,从图形符号、色彩、意境三个方面探讨海南平面设计视觉语言的本土化。     

网络语言的是与非

网络的普及催生了一种新的语言模式,即网络语言。网络语言即时地反映了人们的社会心理和文化心理,然而在网络中言论的极大自由导致了网络用语鱼龙混杂,雅俗共存,本文试图从文化与社会的关系角度出发,谈谈网络语言的＂是与非＂。     

对外汉语教学的禁忌文化教学初探

禁忌是一个历史悠久而且极为复杂的社会文化现象。由于各种原因,中西方的禁忌内容存在很大的差异。打招呼寒喧、谦虚礼让、嘱咐关心等三方面中西之间存在着诸多禁忌差异,大部分对外汉语教材在禁忌文化功能项目的排列和选取上存在不足,对外汉语教学中,应区别对待。