Acquisition of a language largely depends on the learner's exposure to and interaction with it. Our research goal is to explore and implement automatic techniques that help create a richer grammatical intake from a given ...

This thesis focuses on proving the potential of web-based collaborative output processing for the development of communication with a focus on form in second language learning. A comparison between teachers’ and learners’ ...

This thesis is concerned with digital explanatory annotations that are meant to help readers understand, interpret, and enjoy literary texts. The first chapter outlines the advantages of digital over printed annotations. The ...

The status and use of English in the countries of the expanding circle has been of significant interest in recent years (Kachru 1992, Knapp and Meierkord 2002, Seidlhofer and Widdowson 2009, and many others). The use of ...

The Factorial Survey is a method used mainly in sociology to investigate opinions or judgements based on latent principles. To the author’s knowledge, however, it has never been used in linguistics. This paper reports the ...