The orthographic and morphological system of Mandarin Chinese requires more time and
developmental stages for learners to acquire. This source of difficulty might present unique …

Learners' interlanguage is affected by their native language (L1) during second language
(L2) acquisition. Current literature focuses on narrow samples, necessitating a large-scale …

Native language identification (NLI) is the task of training (via supervised machine learning)
a classifier that guesses the native language of the author of a text. This task has been …

Capitalisation is a salient orthographic feature, which plays an important role in linguistic
processing during reading, and in writing assessment. Learners' second language (L2) …

We examined whether and how L1-L2 crosslinguistic formal lexical similarity influences L2
word choice. Our sample included two learner subcorpora, containing 8,500 and 6,390 …

Abstract Learners' native language (L1) influences their knowledge and use of second
language (L2) vocabulary, a phenomenon known as lexical transfer. Past research on this …

In this paper, we focus on the detection of the Arabic learners' mother tongue. The proposed
method is based on the automatic classification using some data statistically extracted from …

We examined the potential influence of L1–L2 lexical similarity on L2 lexical diversity, to
determine whether the robust facilitative effect of lexical similarity that is found in processing …

This chapter now turns to the acquisition of modality by non-native speakers of English. For
indeed, to ask about how modals are used exactly is really to ask about speakers' linguistic …

In this paper, we present a method based on machine learning for Arabic native language
identification task. We expose a hybrid method that combines surface analysis in texts with …