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Rose, Heath; Carson, Lorna

doi:10.1515/cercles-2014-0014

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“…Interest in learning Chinese is rapidly growing, leading to increased research in teaching Chinese as a foreign language and the development of related resources such as learner corpora (Chen, Wang and Cai 2010). This booming growth in Chinese language learning (Zhao and Huang 2010; Rose and Carson 2014), related to the dramatic globalization of the past few decades and a shift in the global language order (Tsung and Cruickshank 2011), has brought with it learners from diverse backgrounds. Consequently, a key challenge here is the development of appropriate resources – language learning tools, assessments and pedagogical materials – driven by language technology, applied linguistics and SLA research (Tsung and Cruickshank 2011).…”

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Multilingual native language identification

Malmasi¹,

Dras²

2015

Nat. Lang. Eng.

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We present the first comprehensive study of Native Language Identification (NLI) applied to text written in languages other than English, using data from six languages. NLI is the task of predicting an author's first language using only their writings in a second language, with applications in Second Language Acquisition and forensic linguistics. Most research to date has focused on English but there is a need to apply NLI to other languages, not only to gauge its applicability but also to aid in teaching research for other emerging languages. With this goal, we identify six typologically very different sources of non-English second language data and conduct six experiments using a set of commonly used features. Our first two experiments evaluate our features and corpora, showing that the features perform well and at similar rates across languages. The third experiment compares non-native and native control data, showing that they can be discerned with 95 per cent accuracy. Our fourth experiment provides a cross-linguistic assessment of how the degree of syntactic data encoded in partof-speech tags affects their efficiency as classification features, finding that most differences between first language groups lie in the ordering of the most basic word categories. We also tackle two questions that have not previously been addressed for NLI. Other work in NLI has shown that ensembles of classifiers over feature types work well and in our final experiment we use such an oracle classifier to derive an upper limit for classification accuracy with our feature set. We also present an analysis examining feature diversity, aiming to estimate the degree of overlap and complementarity between our chosen features employing an association measure for binary data. Finally, we conclude with a general discussion and outline directions for future work.

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Multilingual native language identification

Malmasi¹,

Dras²

2015

Nat. Lang. Eng.

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“…While America and Europe were suffering from global financial crisis about twelve years ago, China started to emerge gradually as the new world economic centre (Pennycook, 2010), and surpassed Japan to become the world's second largest economy in 2011, after America (Rose, 2016). As China's presence has increasingly been seen relevant worldwide, Mandarin Chinese is undoubtedly becoming a language that gains significant attention, with individuals having the language proficiency are highly sought after.…”

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Subjective and Objective Needs Analysis of Mandarin Learners

Lam

Ang

Hoe

et al. 2023

International Journal of Chinese Education

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Needs analysis for language courses has to be carried out continuously to keep up with global changes and the needs of learners. This mixed-method study aims to describe the subjective and objective needs of the Mandarin learners in Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Malaysia, and to check if these needs correspond with each other. Targetting at 120 learners and two instructors, a questionnaire survey was distributed, and complemented by qualitative data derived from focus group interviews. Result shows that learners’ subjective needs correspond with objective needs for motivational orientation, textbook, and cultural exposure. Statistically insignificant differences were found in the expected skills to learn, lecture-activities ratio, and teaching-learning activities. The study concludes that flexibility, student-centeredness and practicality are elements to look into for course improvement. Future research can explore learners’ needs in mastering writing skill, as well as the needs differences among learners across different levels. The study complements the understanding and knowledge of needs analysis in regard to Mandarin learning outside of China.

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Interactive experience of cross-cultural Japanese communication e-learning intelligent system based on computer information security

Donglin

2025

Entertainment Computing

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Introduction

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

Multilingual native language identification

Multilingual native language identification

Subjective and Objective Needs Analysis of Mandarin Learners

Interactive experience of cross-cultural Japanese communication e-learning intelligent system based on computer information security

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