An analysis of grammatical errors in non-native speech in English

2008 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2008 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 89-92

  Lee, John ^a   Seneff, Stephanie ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer assisted language learning; Grammar checking; Second language acquisition

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC METHOD; COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING; ERROR MODEL; FINE-GRAINED ANALYSIS; GRAMMAR CHECKING; GRAMMATICAL ERRORS; JAPANESE LEARNERS OF ENGLISH; NON-NATIVE; NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS; SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION;

EDUCATION; ERRORS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 67649512425     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2008.4777847     Document Type: Conference Paper

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