Boredom has previously been linked to negative academic outcomes such as academic
motivation, strategies, and achievement. The understanding of multiple intelligence …

How can we identify authentic reading material that matches the learner's proficiency and
fosters their language development? Traditionally, this involves assigning a one …

Clause subordination is an important linguistic phenomenon that is relevant to research in
psycholinguistics, cognitive and behavioral sciences, language acquisition, and …

In second language (L2) learning and teaching, practice can be understood as an array of
activities that involve the use of the L2 in a deliberate, systematic, and repeated manner …

This paper discusses our effort to build an automatic Portuguese readability assessment
system aimed at Portuguese language learners. We demonstrate that using linguistic …

Abstract The Artificial Intelligence methods employed in Intelligent Computer Assisted
Language Learning (ICALL) in principle makes it possible to individually support language …

Für gehörlose Lernende stellt das Schreiben eine doppelte Herausforderung dar:
Gebärdensprachen verfügen über keine Gebrauchsschrift, weshalb gehörlose Schreiber …

Reading material that is of interest and at the right level for learners is an essential
component of effective language education. The web has long been identified as a valuable …

The construct of complexity, together with accuracy and fluency have become the central foci
of language learning research in recent years. This dissertation focuses on complexity, a …

Vocabulary is one of the biggest challenges in learning a second language. Computer-
assisted language learning (CALL) of new vocabulary items is an effective and widely used …