(2019). Both AoA and prevalence were assessed by human participants in very large language surveys. The methodology is described in detail in the respective publications. Modeling To verify if, and to what extent, the CEFR levels of lexical items predicted the number of views of their entries ...
Foundational and upper-level skills are distinct but very interrelated: in a study on the component skills of the SVR model (Kim, 2017), word reading was predicted by foundational language skills (vocabulary, and grammatical knowledge) and listening comprehension, a discourse-level skill (e.g.,...
5]. These studies have shown that the translation accuracy of IMDRF-AET using Generative Pretrained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) was the best, but since its publication, deep learning technology in natural language processing has advanced. The evolution of ...
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The thrust of the paper is that there is value in knowing and being educated in one more language. Bilingualism is beneficial when it is additive and rather than subtractive. 2. National Interests and Language choice The political, economic and social choices that nations make in their pursuit ...
EFL learning is distinct from first-language instruction due to the considerable persistence necessary. Hence, the importance of self-efficacy and interest value is clear. From the perspective of effort cost, second language learning is a highly complicated process demanding substantial inputs of time...
Regarding the studies on retrieval practice effects in vocabulary learning, language learners are generally asked to see a cue word and retrieve its translation equivalent from memory in a retrieval practice condition. In contrast, learners need to repeatedly study the word and its corresponding transla...
A form of non-arbitrariness in language is iconicity, i.e., a relationship between linguistic sounds and their referents that is defined not only by convention, but also by the sounds’ and the objects’ inherent qualities. For a word to be iconic, these qualities must be related by means...
A key aspect of efficient visual processing is to use current and previous information to make predictions about what we will see next. In natural viewing, and when looking at words, there is typically an indication of forthcoming visual information from extrafoveal areas of the visual field ...