Approaching language transfer through text classification [[electronic resource] ] : explorations in the detection-based approach / / edited by Scott Jarvis and Scott A. Crossley

• Pubblicazione: Bristol ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (196 p.)
• Disciplina: 401/.93
• Soggetto topico: Language transfer (Language learning); English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching
• Soggetto non controllato: computer classifiers to detect language background; crosslinguistic influence in SLA; crosslinguistic influence; detection-based approach; learners’ native-language backgrounds; transfer in SLA; transfer in language learning
• Classificazione: ES 760
• Altri autori: JarvisScott <1966-> CrossleyScott A
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. The Detection-Based Approach: An Overview -- 2. Detecting L2 Writers’ L1s on the Basis of Their Lexical Styles -- 3. Exploring the Role of n-Grams in L1 Identification -- 4. Detecting the First Language of Second Language Writers Using Automated Indices of Cohesion, Lexical Sophistication, Syntactic Complexity and Conceptual Knowledge -- 5. Error Patterns and Automatic L1 Identification -- 6. The Comparative and Combined Contributions of n-Grams, Coh-Metrix Indices and Error Types in the L1 Classification of Learner Texts -- 7. Detection-Based Approaches: Methods, Theories and Applications
• Sommario/riassunto: Recent work has pointed to the need for a detection-based approach to transfer capable of discovering elusive crosslinguistic effects through the use of human judges and computer classifiers that can learn to predict learners’ language backgrounds based on their patterns of language use. This book addresses that need. It details the nature of the detection-based approach, discusses how this approach fits into the overall scope of transfer research, and discusses the few previous studies that have laid the groundwork for this approach. The core of the book consists of five empirical studies that use computer classifiers to detect the native-language affiliations of texts written by foreign language learners of English. The results highlight combinations of language features that are the most reliable predictors of learners’ language backgrounds.
• Titolo autorizzato: Approaching language transfer through text classification
• ISBN: 9781847696991; 9786613770448; 1-84769-699-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779377603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Second language acquisition (Clevedon, England) ; ; 64.