MONOCONC PRO AND WORDSMITH TOOLS.
REVIEW OF MONOCONCPRO AND WORDSMITH TOOLS
Title MonoCone Pro Version 2.0
Developer
Platform PC
Hardware/
System Windows 95 or . . .
NEWS FROM SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS.
This page includes announcements from the organizations sponsoring
LLT.
University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource
Center (NFLRC)
Less commonly taught languages, particularly . . .
From the Editors.
This is a special issue of Language Learning & Technology on
using corpora in language teaching and learning. The Guest Editors,
Christopher Tribble and Michael Barlow, have written an Introduction . . .
LANGUAGE TESTING AND TECHNOLOGY: PAST AND FUTURE.
Technology is increasingly being promulgated as a powerful
mechanism that can transform education. It is not surprising then, that
the second language (L2) testing field adopted "language . . .
TEST PILOT.(ClearLearning; language testing software)(Software
Review)(Evaluation)
Title Test Pilot
Company ClearLearning
Contact information http://www.clearlearning.com/
info@clearLearning.com
. . .
Exploring Academic English: A Workbook for Student Essay
Writing.(Review)
Exploring Academic English: A Workbook for Student
Essay Writing
Jennifer Thurstun and Christopher Candlin
1997
ISBN 1-864083-74-3
AU $23.95
144 pp.
NCELTR
Sydney, Australia
Exploring Academic . . .
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES : Tools and Trends in Corpora Use for
Teaching and Learning.
INTRODUCTION
Language corpora have long been exploited for language instruction.
Vocabulary lists for learners, for example, have been generated from
corpora, and word counts derived from corpus . . .
About Language Learning & Technology.
Language Learning & Technology is a refereed journal which
began publication in July 1997. The journal seeks to disseminate
research to foreign and second language educators in the U.S. and . . .
WEB-BASED LANGUAGE TESTING.
ABSTRACT
This article describes what a Web-based language test (WBT) is, how
WBTs differ from traditional computer-based tests, and what uses WBTs
have in language testing. After a brief review . . .
HOT POTATOES, VERSION 5.(Half-Baked Software, Inc.; language
testing software)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
Title Hot Potatoes, Version 5
Authors Stewart Arneil, Martin Holmes, and Hilary Street
Platforms Windows and Macintosh
Minimum Software Netscape Navigator . . .
Patterns and Meanings: Using Corpora for English Language
Research and Teaching.(Review)
Patterns and Meanings: Using Corpora for English Language
Research and Teaching
Alan Partington
Studies in Corpus Linguistics
Elena Tognini-Bonelli, series editor:
1998
ISBN 1 55619 396 3
US $ . . .
ON THE NET : Finding Song Lyrics Online.
Most foreign language teachers enjoy studying song lyrics as
authentic text in their classes. Songs can be used at all levels and for
a wide variety of activities and purposes such as . . .
RESPONSE TO THE NORRIS COMMENTARY.
Norris has provided a thorough and insightful commentary to our
article. Nevertheless, we would like to respond to four points that
Norris has brought up. The first two points are clarifications . . .
COMPARING EXAMINEE ATTITUDES TOWARD COMPUTER-ASSISTED AND OTHER
ORAL PROFICIENCY ASSESSMENTS.
ABSTRACT
This article reports the results of a study of examinee attitudinal
reactions to taking different formats of oral proficiency assessments
across three languages: Spanish, Arabic, and . . .
COMPUTERIZED ADAPTIVE TESTING: A PRIMER (Second
Edition).(Review)
Howard Wainer (Ed.)
with Neil J. Dorans, Daniel Eignor, Ronald Flaugher, Bert F. Green,
Robert J. Mislevy, Lynne Steinberg, and David Thissen
2000
ISBN 0-8058-3511-3
US $89.95; US $45.00 . . .
GENRES, REGISTERS, TEXT TYPES, DOMAINS, AND STYLES: CLARIFYING
THE CONCEPTS AND NAVIGATING A PATH THROUGH THE BNC JUNGLE.
ABSTRACT
In this paper, an attempt is first made to clarify and tease apart
the somewhat confusing terms genre, register, text type, domain,
sublanguage, and style. The use of these terms by . . .
Multilingual Corpora in Teaching and Research -- (From the series
Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics, No
2
Multilingual Corpora in Teaching and Research -- (From the
series Language and Computers: Studies in Practical
Linguistics, No 22)
Simon P. Botley, Anthony M. McEnery, and Andrew Wilson, . . .
From the Special Issue Editors.
This Special Issue of Language Learning and Technology has been in
the making for many months. We feel it has been worth the effort, and
hope that our readers do, too. If you've never used corpus . . .
CONCERNS WITH COMPUTERIZED ADAPTIVE ORAL PROFICIENCY
ASSESSMENT.
A Commentary on "Comparing Examinee Attitudes Toward
Computer-Assisted and Other Oral Proficient Assessments" by Dorry
Kenyon and Valerie Malabonga
There is no doubt that computers and related . . .
COMPARABILITY OF CONVENTIONAL AND COMPUTERIZED TESTS OF READING
IN A SECOND LANGUAGE.
ABSTRACT
Computerization of L2 reading tests has been of interest among
language assessment researchers for the past 15 years, but few empirical
studies have evaluated the equivalence of the . . .
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