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Language Technologies in Teaching Foreign Language for Specific Purposes

Author(s): Maria Stambolieva
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Applied Linguistics, Cognitive linguistics
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: e-learning; language technologies; FLT; FLTSP; educational platforms; concordancing; lemmatization; alignment; corpus analysis; automatic generation and assessment of tests

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the aims, tasks and expected results of an е-platform designed for the teaching of foreign languages for specific purposes. The platform, developed by the Laboratory for Language Technologies of New Bulgarian University, is tailored to the specific needs of students. The platform allows: 1/ corpus creation and management; 2/ the creation of term banks, with definitions and translations, 3/ corpus analysis (lemmatisation, POS, morphological and morphemic analysis, syntactic analysis, parallel text alignment); 4/ the generation of text-based drills and tests; 5/ automatic test assessment.

  • Issue Year: 44/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 24-34
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Bulgarian