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Measuring Coherence in Chinese EFL Majors’ Writing through LSA (Latent Semantic Analysis)

Measuring Coherence in Chinese EFL Majors’ Writing through LSA (Latent Semantic Analysis)

| April 5, 2006

In recent years, writing, as one of the most important communicative skills, has been drawing increasing attention in English language teaching in China. This paper presents an investigation into the use of decomposition in Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) to analyze textual coherence.

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Learning English as a Foreign Language in Korea:  Does CALL have a place?

Learning English as a Foreign Language in Korea: Does CALL have a place?

| April 5, 2006

The first goal of this paper is to provide readers with a background to the cultural and educational conditions observed and researched about Korea. The second objective is to perform a current review of CALL (computer aided/assisted language learning) use in second language acquisition and to determine if any literature exists specifically about the use of CALL in Korean EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classrooms.

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