For Teachers Research
But half my lesson’s just teacher-talk: Should we pre-teach vocab?
I’m always torn over the decision to pre-teach vocabulary due to the time required. There’s an argument that if you…
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For Teachers Research
NLP & CALL: 2 fields that haven’t really merged yet?
NLP = Natural Language Processing CALL = Computer-assisted Language Learning NLP makes chunks to help businesses make money… In another…
For Teachers Materials Research
Automated chunking of text (for learners, not search algorithms)
With natural language processing techniques, text can be tokenized into sentences and words, and these can be “chunked” according to…
For Teachers Materials Research
Finding the right “chunks” to teach for fluency
“Chunks” are groups of words that commonly occur together, and according to research, are likely processed and recorded in the…
For Teachers Research
The Untapped Potential of Natural Language Processing in CALL
How tokenizers, part-of-speech taggers, and algorithms can parse sentences for use in language learning apps Natural Language Processing (NLP) is…
For Teachers Research
Redefining what “authentic listening tasks” are
In one of my favorite books, “Listening Myths,” (2011) author Steven Brown says that listening is social and interactive. This…