Work

Error profiling

Year: 2001

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: In this paper we discuss our approach toward establishing a model of the acquisition of English grammatical structures by users of our English language tutoring system, which has been designed for deaf users of American Sign Language. We explore the correlation between a corpus of error-tagged texts and their holistic proficiency scores assigned by experts in order to draw initial conclusions about what language errors typically occur at different levels of proficiency in this population. Since errors made at lower levels (and not at higher levels) presumably represent constructions acquired before those on which errors are found only at higher levels, this should provide insight into the order of acquisition of English grammatical forms.

Source: Proceedings of the conference - Association for Computational Linguistics. Meeting

DOI: 10.3115/1073012.1073063

Authors: Lisa N. Michaud, Kathleen F. McCoy

Institution: University of Delaware

Language: English

Topic: EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Science Foundation, University of Delaware