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Effects of Machine Translation on L2 Writing Proficiency: The Complexity, Accuracy, Lexical Diversity, and Fluency
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Sangmin-Michelle Lee; Nayeon Kang – Language Learning & Technology, 2024
With recent improvements in machine translation (MT) accuracy, MT has gained unprecedented popularity in second language (L2) learning. Despite the significant number of studies on MT use, the effects of using MT on students' retention of learning or secondary school students' use of MT in L2 writing has rarely been researched. The current study…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition), Middle School Students, Foreign Countries
Age of Onset, Type of Exposure, and Ultimate Attainment of L2 Morpho-Syntactic Sensitivity
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Lee, Eun-Kyoung Rosa – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
The present study examined whether early immersive L2 exposure in a foreign language learning context can yield long-term advantages in L2 morpho-syntactic sensitivity. Participants were 40 Korean university students with high English proficiency, who had either attended an English kindergarten or begun learning English in a classroom, and a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Morphemes, Syntax
Machine Translation Errors and L2 Learners' Correction Strategies by Error Type and English Proficiency
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Yoon, Chae Won; Chon, Yuah V. – English Teaching, 2022
To investigate L2 adolescent learners' use of machine translation (MT), an MT error correction (EC) test was developed, based on the analysis of MT errors arising from translating the learners' L1 of middle school EFL textbooks. Learners were also asked to report on their use of MT EC strategies on the EC task. Results indicated that…
Descriptors: Translation, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Language Proficiency
An Exploratory Study of Grammarly in the Language Learning Context: An Analysis of Test-Based, Textbook-Based and Facebook Corpora
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Bailey, Daniel; Lee, Andrea Rakushin – TESOL International Journal, 2020
Different genres of writing entail various levels of syntactic and lexical complexity, and how this complexity influences the results of Automatic Writing Evaluation (AWE) programs like Grammarly in second language (L2) writing is unknown. This study explored the use of Grammarly in the L2 writing context by comparing error frequency, error types…
Descriptors: Grammar, Computer Assisted Instruction, Error Correction, Feedback (Response)
Types of Errors in College Students' L2 Writing in EFL Environments
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Jung, Mi-Young – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2013
The purposes of this study are to examine what type of errors students make more between form-based and meaning-based errors, as well as to investigate in which error categories Korean learners frequently make errors and mistakes. In three studies, 264 essays from 42 subjects who were at a Korean university were collected. This study adopted error…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Students, Writing (Composition)
Grammaticality Judgements and Dative Shifts.
Park, Kyung-Ja; Nakano, Michiko – Journal of Japan-Korea Association of Applied Linguistics, 1998
This investigation encompassed a full-scale experiment for both Japanese and Korean university students and looked at the following: the role of grammaticality-judgment tasks (GJT) in second-language acquisition; the learners' behaviors when they were asked to do GJT; and the reasons why the learners made the wrong grammatical judgments.…
Descriptors: College Students, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Foreign Countries