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APPROACHING LANGUAGE TRANSFER THROUGH TEXT CLASSIFICATION
EXPLORATIONS IN THE DETECTION-BASED APPROACH |
| By: |
Scott Jarvis (Editor), Scott A. Crossley (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1847696988 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781847696984 |
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| Publisher: |
CHANNEL VIEW PUBLICATIONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
14 March, 2012 |
| Series: |
Second Language Acquisition |
| Pages: |
200 |
| Description: |
This book explains the detection-based approach to investigating crosslinguistic influence and illustrates the value of the approach through a collection of five empirical studies that use the approach to quantify, evaluate, and isolate the subtle and complex influences of learners' native-language backgrounds on their English writing. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Multilingual Matters |
| Returns: |
Returnable |