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Freeman, Mike. "Time factors as predictors of success in language learning : a study of background variables and language learning activities." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1996. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/843702/.

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The present research examines the importance of time factors as predictors of success in language learning. Time factors are periods of time which students spend on language learning. The research addresses four main questions: (1) what is the nature of the relationship between language learning and time; (2) what is the relative importance of time factors to language learning; (3) to what extent can time factors predict success in language learning; and (4) what do students spend most time on? A group of 118 students of French and EFL at the Universities of Sussex and Brighton completed a que

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Wen, Qiu-fang. "Advanced level English language learning in China : the relationship of modifiable learner variables to learning outcomes /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B17664731.

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Nichols, Jennifer Lynn. "Motivation and Affective Variables in Arabic Language Learning for Iraq War Veterans: Language Learning Experiences Inside and Outside the Classroom." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1274056937.

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Rafiee, Abdorreza. "Variables of communicative incompetence in the performance of Iranian learners of English and English learners of Persian." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283460.

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LaCross, Amy Beth. "The Role of Language-Specific Phonology: Tracking Linguistic Variables in Khalkha Mongolian." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/202940.

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Previous research on speakers' abilities to track non-adjacent dependencies (e.g., vowels or consonants that co-occur across syllables) in artificial grammar learning (AGL) tasks has shown that the acquisition of these patterns is extremely difficult (e.g. Newport&Aslin 2004; Gómez 2002; Bonatti, PenÞa, Nespor&Mehler 2005). One assumption made in this literature is that all speakers of all languages should be capable of tracking these patterns even when the native language of those speakers contains no such non-adjacent dependencies. This dissertation questions this assumption by testing wheth

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Wan, Hong. "Language anxiety in Chinese learners of English in the U.K. : conceptualisation of language anxiety in second language learning and its relationship with other leaner variables." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/2635.

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This study focuses on the conceptualisation of language anxiety in foreign language learning and on its relationship with other learner variables in Chinese learners of English in the U.K. It documents Chinese learners‟ English anxiety experience in the U.K., proposes a model of language anxiety, and examines the relationship between language anxiety and the following learner variables: English proficiency, exposure to English out of class, language preferences when learning and using English out of class, second language motivation, attitude towards learning English, self-confidence, and sele

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Yin, Chengbin. "Language learning strategies in relation to attitudes, motivations, and learner beliefs : investigating learner variables in the context of English as a foreign language in China /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8258.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.<br>Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Joan, Palacios. "ELE y las diferentes estrategias de aprendizaje. Identificación, uso y aplicación en alumnos de escuela primaria y secundaria : Un estudio de las diferentes estrategias de aprendizaje entre los cursos de séptimo hasta el tercer año de bachillerato de español como lengua extranjera (ELE)." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-88849.

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The aim of this study is to investigate the preferred language learning strategies and with the use of three different variables as: motivation, language competence as a foreign language and contact with the Spanish language investigate if they influence the preference choice. The variables that has been chosen for the sake of the investigations wider understanding of preference and effects of the choice of preferred language learning strategies by students. The investigation was applied on students that study Spanish as foreign language in a city of southern Sweden. The study theory is based

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Liyanage, Indika Jananda Borala, and n/a. "An Exploration of Language Learning Strategies and Learner Variables of Sri Lankan Learners of English as a Second Language with Special Reference to Their Personality Types." Griffith University. School of Cognition, Language and Special Education, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20040716.112300.

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This study explores the relationship between language learning strategies and learner variables of Sri Lankan learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) with special reference to their personality types to examine what implications these associations have for the teaching of ESL in the Sri Lankan sociocultural context. In order to investigate the above, a large and representative sample of the ESL population was chosen. The sample taken for analysis comprised 886 subjects from six secondary schools which operate under the Ministry of Education in the Sri Lankan government. These subjects b

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Ekström, Andrea. "Foreign language communication anxiety in correlation to the sociolinguistic variables gender, age, performance and multilingual competence : A linguistic pilot study of Swedish students’ attitudes." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-19129.

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This data-driven linguistic study investigates if levels of different types of foreign language communication anxiety, such as for speaking, listening, writing and/or reading that Swedish students in compulsory school (grades 7-9) and upper secondary school experience when communicating in English in their foreign language classes have any correlation to sociolinguistic variables such as gender, age, performance and/or multilingual competence. The compiled and analyzed self-report data have successfully provided a base for implied correlations between the different sociolinguistic variables an

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Tanaka, Mitsuko. "The effects of affective variables and kanji growth on L1 Chinese JSL learners' kanji learning." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/252406.

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Applied Linguistics<br>Ph.D.<br>Learning kanji (i.e., the Chinese characters utilized in the Japanese writing system) is unique for learners of Japanese who speak Chinese as their first language (L1) due to their ability to transfer their knowledge of L1 hanzi (i.e., the Chinese characters utilized in the Chinese writing system). The present study is a longitudinal investigation into the effects of affective variables and kanji growth on kanji learning utilizing the self-determination theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 1985, 2002). L1 Chinese learners of Japanese as a second language (L2) responded to

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Zhang, Haiwei. "The influence of L1 background and other meta-linguistic and background variables on the learning of Pinyin and Hanzi by Arabic and English learners of Chinese as a second language." Thesis, University of York, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/16332/.

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Alphabetic Pinyin and morphosyllabic Hanzi are two different writing systems used in the Chinese language. Though Pinyin and Hanzi utilize different orthographies, the development of literacy skills in both writing systems depends on phonological processing skills. Becoming aware of the phonological structure in Chinese and the orthographic structure in Hanzi are crucial for the growth of literacy skills in Pinyin and Hanzi. The present study investigated the influence of L1 background and other meta-linguistic and background variables on Chinese phonological awareness, phonetic radical awaren

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Ciruela, Castillo Carmen. "The Acquisition of English by Immigrant School Learners in Catalonia: Affective Variables and Cross-linguistic Influence." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/277260.

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Research on the acquisition of English by immigrants is abundant when it takes place in second language (SL) contexts. However, few studies deal with immigrant learners’ acquisition of English as a foreign language (EFL). In the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia, with a very high rate of immigration, research on language acquisition by immigrant learners has focused on the two official languages, Catalan and Spanish. In contrast to this, the study hereby reported tackles EFL among immigrant secondary-school learners, with a focus on the participants’ affective variables (attitudes and

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Ladele, Omolola A. "The teaching and learning of word problems in beginning algebra : a Nigerian (Lagos State) study." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2013. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/693.

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At both the junior and senior secondary school levels in Nigeria, student performance in mathematics examinations has been poor. Within the context of large classes, with inadequate facilities, and teaching and learning in a second language, algebra and algebra word problems are introduced to students during their first year of junior secondary school. The transition from primary school arithmetic to the use of the algebraic letter is challenging to students and it is important that teachers should know the likely difficulties and misconceptions students may have as they begin algebra (Welder,

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Das, Dipanjan. "Semi-Supervised and Latent-Variable Models of Natural Language Semantics." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2012. http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/342.

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This thesis focuses on robust analysis of natural language semantics. A primary bottleneck for semantic processing of text lies in the scarcity of high-quality and large amounts of annotated data that provide complete information about the semantic structure of natural language expressions. In this dissertation, we study statistical models tailored to solve problems in computational semantics, with a focus on modeling structure that is not visible in annotated text data. We first investigate supervised methods for modeling two kinds of semantic phenomena in language. First, we focus on the pro

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Karipidou, Kelly. "Modelling the body language of a musical conductor using Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models." Thesis, KTH, Datorseende och robotik, CVAP, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-176101.

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Motion capture data of a musical conductor's movements when conducting a string quartet is analysed in this work using the Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model (GP-LVM) framework. A dimensionality reduction on the high dimensional motion capture data to a two dimensional representation using a GP-LVM is performed, followed by classification of conduction movements belonging to different interpretations of the same musical piece. A dynamical prior is used for the GP-LVM, resulting in a representative latent space for the sequential conduction motion data. Classification results with great per

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Wen, Tsung-Hsien. "Recurrent neural network language generation for dialogue systems." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275648.

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Language is the principal medium for ideas, while dialogue is the most natural and effective way for humans to interact with and access information from machines. Natural language generation (NLG) is a critical component of spoken dialogue and it has a significant impact on usability and perceived quality. Many commonly used NLG systems employ rules and heuristics, which tend to generate inflexible and stylised responses without the natural variation of human language. However, the frequent repetition of identical output forms can quickly make dialogue become tedious for most real-world users.

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Grave, Edouard. "A Markovian approach to distributional semantics." Phd thesis, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI, 2014. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00940575.

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This thesis, which is organized in two independent parts, presents work on distributional semantics and on variable selection. In the first part, we introduce a new method for learning good word representations using large quantities of unlabeled sentences. The method is based on a probabilistic model of sentence, using a hidden Markov model and a syntactic dependency tree. The latent variables, which correspond to the nodes of the dependency tree, aim at capturing the meanings of the words. We develop an efficient algorithm to perform inference and learning in those models, based on online EM

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Grave, Edouard. "A Markovian approach to distributional semantics." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 6, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA066002.

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Cette thèse, organisée en deux parties indépendantes, a pour objet la sémantique distributionnelle et la sélection de variables. Dans la première partie, nous introduisons une nouvelle méthode pour l'apprentissage de représentations de mots à partir de grandes quantités de texte brut. Cette méthode repose sur un modèle probabiliste de la phrase, utilisant modèle de Markov caché et arbre de dépendance. Nous présentons un algorithme efficace pour réaliser l'inférence et l'apprentissage dans un tel modèle, fondé sur l'algorithme EM en ligne et la propagation de message approchée. Nous évaluons le

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Nguyen, TBH. "English learning strategies of Vietnamese tertiary students." Thesis, 2013. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/17105/1/Front-Nguyen-Thesis-_2013.pdf.

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Ercegovcevic, Milos. "Joint Learning of Syntax and Semantics." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-328566.

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Diplomová práce se zabývá problémem strojového učení nepozorovaných úrovní abstrakce mělké sémantické reprezentace. Odstraňujeme předpoklady, které se při sémantické anotaci lingvistických zdrojů obvykle činí, např. pevný počet sémantických rolí v PropBanku, a učíme se klíčové lingvistické prvky této ano- tace (sémantické rámce, slovesa, lexikální a syntaktické třídy) s různou mírou ab- strakce. Model implementujeme pomocí latentních gramatik a získané struktury je možné použít pro úlohu značkování sémantických rolí (semantic role labeling, SRL) v několika jazycích s přesností srovnatelnou s j

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Tan, Shawn. "Latent variable language models." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/22131.

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McWilliams, Kyle G. "An analysis of variables affecting instructional efficiency : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Canterbury /." 2006. http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/etd/adt-NZCU20060702.125330.

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Borowiak, Agnieszka. "Exploring the role of individual variables in the success of CLIL as an approach to EFL learning." Phd diss., 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11089/39767.

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This dissertation explores the role of individual variables in the success of CLIL as an approach to EFL learning. The study focuses in particular on the role of motivation, autonomy, learning strategies, CLIL learners' attitude towards CLIL education, beliefs about foreign language learning in the success of CLIL. The overarching aim of the study is to bridge the gap in the research on this topic. The research was carried out over one term in two secondary schools in Poland. Two groups of participants were involved in the study, namely, CLIL and non-CLIL learners as the target and control gro

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Lightbourn, Ryleigh. "Un réseau de variables : une analyse sociocritique et ergonomique de l’usage de Twitter pour l’acquisition du français." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/12008.

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This thesis offers a sociocritical (Collin, Guichon et Ntébutsé, 2015) and ergonomic (Bertin, 2015; Caws & Hamel, 2016; Rabardel, 1995) analysis of an online language learning activity using Twitter, in order to better understand the complex network of variables influencing the success or failure this digital platform in an educational context. Since the creation of Twitter in 2006, researchers in technology-mediated education have been re-purposing the platform for language learning in order to understand its impact on the learner experience (Hattem & Lomicka, 2016). Most studies investigate

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Van, der Wal Rachel Jacoba. "Developing proficiency in Afrikaans as an additional language : criteria for materials development." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27372.

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The current movement towards multilingualism and multiculturalism in South Africa has placed language at the centre of all educational activity. With the implementation of the outcomes-based Curriculum 2005, the emphasis is on appropriate learning support material, and the learning programmes are seen as guides that allow teachers to be innovative and creative in designing instructional and learning material. The fact that Afrikaans was one of three compulsory language subjects at a school in the Soweto area motivated researchers of Technikon South Africa to embark upon an outreach project. Th

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Reisinger, Joseph Simon. "Latent variable models of distributional lexical semantics." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/26889.

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Computer Sciences<br>In order to respond to increasing demand for natural language interfaces---and provide meaningful insight into user query intent---fast, scalable lexical semantic models with flexible representations are needed. Human concept organization is a rich phenomenon that has yet to be accounted for by a single coherent psychological framework: Concept generalization is captured by a mixture of prototype and exemplar models, and local taxonomic information is available through multiple overlapping organizational systems. Previous work in computational linguistics on extracting lex

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