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Fournet, Colas; Mirault, Jonathan; Perea, Manuel; Grainger, Jonathan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
In four experiments, we investigated the impact of letter case (lower case vs. UPPER CASE) on the processing of sequences of written words. Experiment 1 used the rapid parallel visual presentation (RPVP) paradigm with postcued identification of one word in a five-word sequence. The sequence could be grammatically correct (e.g., "the boy likes…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Reading Processes, Word Recognition, Punctuation
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Alenazi, Yasir; Chen, Shen; Picard, Michelle; Hunt, Jaime W. – International TESOL Journal, 2021
The English language plays a significant role in Saudi Arabia at the local and international levels. Spelling errors, as one of the challenging elements in writing confronted by Saudi learners of English, have a negative effect on the quality of their written translation products (Ababneh, 2019). Therefore, more analytical studies are needed to…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Translation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Tongpoon-Patanasorn, Angkana; Griffith, Karl – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2020
Machine translation (MT), especially Google Translate (GT), is widely used by language learners and those who need help with translation. MT research, particularly that which examines the quality and usability of the translation produced by the MT, only makes up a handful of studies. Moreover, only a few of them have looked at translation quality…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Hamed, Muftah – Arab World English Journal, 2018
This study aims to investigate the most common types of linguistic errors and their frequency occurrence in compositions written by forty (40) non-English major Libyan students at the pre-intermediate level in Language Centre at Omar EL-Mukhtar University, EL-Beida, Libya. A corpus of 40 compositions was collected from a sample of 40 students in…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Undergraduate Students, Writing Evaluation
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Jabulani, Sibanda – South African Journal of Education, 2014
The study reports on challenges related to the use of the language of attribution in academic essay writing by Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) students at Rhodes University, as a microcosm of similar challenges faced by university students elsewhere. The study content-analysed 150 essays written by 50 PGCE students taking the course…
Descriptors: Essays, Teaching Methods, College Students, Course Descriptions