An Innovative English Teaching System Based on Computer Aided Technology and Corpus Management

Gong, Wencui

doi:10.3991/ijet.v14i14.10817

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“…The implication here is that the use of technology, instanced by concordance, helps advance and develop the process of learning. Significantly, the introduction of technology in the process of learning has always been the concern of many scholars who are interested in incorporating modern technology in the process of learning in general, and in learning English in particular [27,28,29,30,31]. Integrating technology into education has become an urgent need and a necessity on the part of both teachers and learners, which in turn functions to raise the need for more software, particularly in the learning process to facilitate the task of getting knowledge on the part of learners [32].…”

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Using Concordance to Decode the Ideological Weight of Lexis in Learning Narrative Literature: A Computational Approach

Khafaga¹,

El-Nabawi²

2020

IJACSA

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In learning narrative literature, students find difficulty in comprehending and approaching the ideological messages beyond the usage of recurrent lexical items in literary narrative texts. This problem comes as a result of the huge number of lexical items literary texts, particularly the narrative, abound in. The use of the computer and of computational linguistics work makes it possible to process and examine large data for a variety of purposes and to investigate questions that could not feasibly be answered if the analysis was carried manually. This paper, therefore, investigates the relevance of using concordance to decode the ideological weight of lexis in narrative literature. The main objective of the paper is to explore the extent to which certain ideologies and themes are decoded in literary narrative texts undergone a computational concordance analysis. This is conducted by means of a computational concordancing that is intended for providing two verifiable inputs: Frequency Distribution (FD) and Key Word in Context (KWIC). The paper is grounded on an experimental study, where 39 majoring English students attending one novel course at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, were voluntarily involved in an optional course addressing the study of a narrative literary text: Animal Farm. Participants were divided into two groups: an experimental group and a control group. The former was allowed to use concordance, whereas the latter was only permitted to use conventional methods of studying narrative texts (mere reading). Both groups are assigned to find out the themes and the ideological meanings inferred from a selected list of 13 words from the novel. Results show that the experimental group manages, by applying concordance, to decode the ideological weight of the selected words in a more accurate, credible and faster way than the control group. This in turn facilitates the process of determining the intended message addressed in the novel, either at the character-character level of discourse or at the author-readers one.

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Using Concordance to Decode the Ideological Weight of Lexis in Learning Narrative Literature: A Computational Approach

Khafaga¹,

El-Nabawi²

2020

IJACSA

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“…The corpus can be classified according to its timeliness and can be divided into a common time corpus and an ephemeral corpus. In terms of selection, the corpus can be divided into a sample corpus and a full-text corpus [8]. In terms of applied genres, the corpus can be divided into single-genre corpus and multigenre corpus.…”

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Development and Teaching Application of Japanese Corpus Based on Big Data

Liu

Hua

2022

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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The establishment of English and French corpora has provided great convenience for language application and research. However, in the field of Japanese language research, the construction of Japanese corpus has been slow due to the limitation of Japanese markup format. This paper discusses the scientificity, rationality, feasibility, and construction of “microcorpus” and “specialized corpus” for the application of Japanese corpus in Japanese language teaching. Textual corpus is a corpus that contains all text but no media such as audio and pictures, and it is mostly used in teaching. The Japanese language corpus is a corpus created by analyzing the existing Japanese classroom teaching situation in response to the current reform of Japanese language teaching mode. It is important for teaching Japanese in colleges and universities because it can help students to learn independently and improve their learning initiative and motivation. The teaching-based text corpus is a small corpus for Japanese language teaching and learning, which is derived from the teaching process. The corpus can be created independently on an ordinary PC machine through software, and the collected corpus can be imported into the corpus and used, which provides another way to improve students’ interest and learning ability on their own. Based on the search software, this paper selects representative novels from the Aozora Library and creates a simple corpus to serve the teaching of Japanese interpretation, which improves the teaching effect. At the same time, this paper discusses the boundaries and difficulties of individual self-built corpora with a view to making breakthroughs and progress in future research and development.

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“…The progress of technological systems has always been reflected principally on teaching foreign languages, particularly English language teaching (ELT) [21]. Many pedagogical practices have been registered as an ultimate result of the information technology revolution which started with the development of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) in the second half of the 20 th century [17,[22][23][24]. Through CMC, users have given a variety of opportunities that activate communication to create, participate, and interpret information by virtue of the employment of telecommunication networks that function to assist encoding, transmitting, and decoding messages.…”

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“…The great changes in translation technologies are supposed to be reflected in translation pedagogy and instruction. The hypothesis is that the incorporation of technological methods into the institutional instruction of translation functions not only to improve the translation process both pedagogically and practically, but also to enhance EFL learners' productivity in the field [15][16][17].…”

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The Impact of Translation Software on Improving the Performance of Translation Majors

Omar¹,

Khafaga²,

Shaalan³

2020

IJACSA

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The recent years have witnessed a high demand for professional translation services due to the global nature of world economy, accessibility to data in different languages, and the development of unprecedented communication channels. Translators can no longer meet these growing needs of customers and businesses. As such, different translation technologies have been developed to help translation learners and professionals improve their performance in producing a high quality translation. These technologies are now widely integrated into translation programs in different universities, institutes and training centers around the world for their usefulness and reliability in improving the performance of translation learners and professionals in the delivery of trustworthy and professional translation services. Nevertheless, surveys show that the Saudi labor market still has serious problems with qualified translators who are familiar with translation technologies that have negative impacts on the quality and delivery of translation services. This study, therefore, seeks to explore the opportunities and challenges of incorporating translation software and latest technologies into translation pedagogy in the Saudi universities. An open-ended interview with 37 translation instructors from 9 Saudi universities was conducted. Results indicate that the integration of translation software and technologies is still less than expected. This can be attributed to the fact that the majority of instructors prefer manual translation over computer-assisted translation (CAT), translation technologies are not provided by the institutions, and learning outcomes are not linked to labor market needs.

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An Innovative English Teaching System Based on Computer Aided Technology and Corpus Management

Cited by 13 publications

References 34 publications

Using Concordance to Decode the Ideological Weight of Lexis in Learning Narrative Literature: A Computational Approach

Using Concordance to Decode the Ideological Weight of Lexis in Learning Narrative Literature: A Computational Approach

Development and Teaching Application of Japanese Corpus Based on Big Data

The Impact of Translation Software on Improving the Performance of Translation Majors

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