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Scott Crossley
Scott Andrew Crossley (born 1973) is an American linguist. He is a professor of applied linguistics at the Georgia State University, United States. His research focuses on natural language processing and the application of computational tools and machine learning algorithms in learning analytics including second language acquisition, second language writing, and readability. His main interest area is the development and use of natural language processing tools in assessing writing quality and text difficulty. Along with Cumming, Hyland, Kormos, Matsuda, Manchón, Ortega, Polio, Storch and Verspoor he is considered one of the most prominent researchers on second language writing. Career Crossley obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in history at the California State University of Northridge in 1999. In the same year he obtained a Teaching English as a second or foreign language certificate at the University of Memphis. He got his Master of Arts degree in English language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simi Valley, California
Simi Valley (; Chumash: ''Shimiyi'') is a city in the valley of the same name in the southeast region of Ventura County, California, United States. Simi Valley is from Downtown Los Angeles, making it part of the Greater Los Angeles Area. The city sits next to Thousand Oaks, Moorpark, and Chatsworth. As of the 2020 U.S. Census the population was 126,356, up from 124,243 in 2010. The city of Simi Valley is surrounded by the Santa Susana Mountains and the Simi Hills, west of the San Fernando Valley, and northeast of the Conejo Valley. It grew as a commuter bedroom community for the cities in the Los Angeles area, and the San Fernando Valley when a freeway was built over the Santa Susana Pass. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, where the former president was buried in 2004, is in Simi Valley. The Reagan Library has hosted Republican primary debates in 2012 and 2016. History Chumash/pre-colonial period Simi Valley was once inhabited by the Chumash people, who also s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Applied Linguistics
Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems. Some of the academic fields related to applied linguistics are education, psychology, communication research, information science, natural language processing, anthropology, and sociology. Domain Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field. Major branches of applied linguistics include bilingualism and multilingualism, conversation analysis, contrastive linguistics, language assessment, literacies, discourse analysis, language pedagogy, second language acquisition, language planning and policy, interlinguistics, stylistics, language teacher education, forensic linguistics, and translation. Journals Major journals of the field include ''Research Methods in Applied Linguistics'', ''Annual Review of Applied Linguistics'', ''Applied Linguistics'', Studies in Second Language Acquisition, ''Applied Psycholinguistics'', ''Internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neomy Storch
Neomy Storch (born 1954) is a Jewish Australian people, Australian linguist. She is currently an associate professor of applied linguistics at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on second language acquisition with a special focus on second language writing. She is noted for her work on second language acquisition, collaborative writing, and academic writing. Career Storch obtained her Bachelor of Economics degree at the Monash University in 1976. In 1995 she obtained her Master of Arts degree and in 2001 a PhD at the University of Melbourne. Since 2010, she has been a member of the editorial board of the ''Journal of Second Language Writing''. In 2023 and 2024, Dr. Storch was the most cited Australian researcher in the field of Foreign Language Learning Storch retired from full-time teaching at the end of 2023, but continues to work at the University of Melbourne as an honorary fellow, working as a PhD supervisor for several candidates. Publication ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlene Polio
Charlene Polio (born 1961) is an American linguist. She is currently a professor in the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at Michigan State University, The United States. Her research focuses on second language acquisition with a special focus on second language writing. Career Polio obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Linguistics in 1983 and her Master of Science degree in TESOL in 1984 at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1992 she obtained her PhD in Applied linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Polio was the co-editor of T''he Modern Language Journal''''.'' She is co-editor of ''TESOL Quarterly'' along with Peter De Costa. Since April 2018 she has been a member-at-large of the American Association for Applied Linguistics. Research Polio's research focuses on second language writing with a special focus on language complexity. She is noted for her research synthesis on accuracy measures, published in Language Learning Lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lourdes Ortega
Lourdes Ortega (born 1962) is a Spanish people, Spanish-born American people, American linguist. She is currently a professor of applied linguistics at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on second language acquisition and second language writing. She is noted for her work on second language acquisition and for recommending that Language complexity, syntactic complexity needs to be measured multidimensionally. Career Ortega received her Master of Arts in English as a second or foreign language, English as a second language in 1995 and her Doctor of Philosophy in Second language acquisition in 2000 from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She taught applied linguistics in graduate programs at Georgia State University between 2000-2002, Northern Arizona University between 2002-2004, University of Hawaii at Manoa between 2004-2012, and Georgetown University since 2012. She is the Currents in Language Learning Series Editor & Associate General Editor of the Language Learnin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosa Manchón
Rosa María Manchón Ruiz (born 1957) is a Spanish linguist. She is currently a professor of applied linguistics at the University of Murcia, Spain. Her research focuses on second language acquisition and second language writing. She was the editor of the ''Journal of Second Language Writing'' between 2008 and 2014. Career Manchón started teaching at the University of Murcia in 1995. From 2011 and 2014, she was a member of the Executive Board of the International Association of Applied Linguistics. From 2008 and 2014, she was the co-editor of the ''Journal of Second Language Writing.'' On 24 March 2010, she was interviewed along with Ilona Leki on the goals and the future of the ''Journal of Second Language Writing''. On 26 July 2012, she presented at the Campus Mare Nostrum of the University of Murcia: Curso de verano entitled ''Escribir ciencia en inglés''. She is an associate editor of The Modern Language Journal, a peer-reviewed academic journal. Research Manchón ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Kei Matsuda
Paul Kei Matsuda (born 1970) is a Japanese-born American applied linguist. He is currently a professor of English and the director of second language writing at Arizona State University He has published several articles and edited books on the areas of second language writing, composition studies, and cognitive and linguistic theories of composition. Career Matsuda obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in communication from the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point in 1993. He obtained his Master of Arts in English with Composition and Rhetoric Concentration in 1995 from the Miami University. In 2000 he obtained his PhD in English from Purdue University. Research Matsuda's main interest is in second language writing. In 1997 he wrote a seminal article on the contrastive rhetoric in context published in the J''ournal of Second Language Writing''''.'' Awards * 2004: TOEFL Outstanding Young Scholar Award (Educational Testing Service) * 2006: Richard Ohmann Award for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judit Kormos
Judit Kormos () (born 1970) is a Hungarian people, Hungarian-born British people, British linguist. She is a professor and the Director of Studies for the MA TESOL Distance programme at the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, United Kingdom. She is renowned for her work on motivation in second language learning, and self-regulated learning, self-regulation in second language writing. Her current interest is in dyslexia in second language learning. Career Kormos graduated at the ELTE School of English and American Studies, School of English and American Studies of the ELTE Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary in 1994. Kormos gained her PhD at the Eötvös Loránd University in 1999. Her PhD was supervised by Zoltán Dörnyei. Kormos took up a lecturer position at the Lancaster University in 2008. and was promoted to a Readership in 2012. She chose to be called ''Reader in Second L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Hyland
Ken Hyland is a British linguist. He is currently a professor of applied linguistics in education at the University of East Anglia. Hyland is an applied linguist in the field of academic discourse, second language writing, and English for Academic Purposes, and has published more than 26 books and 200 articles. Google Scholar shows him to be one of the most cited researchers in Applied Linguistics. Career He is founding co-editor of the Journal of English for Academic Purposes and was co-editor of ''Applied Linguistics.'' Books Authored * Hyland, K. (2016) ''Teaching and Researching Writing''. 3rd edition. London: Routledge. * Hyland, K. (2015) ''Academic publishing: issues and challenges in the production of knowledge''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. * Hyland, K. (2015). ''Academic Written English''. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press. * Hyland, K. (2012). ''Disciplinary Identities: Individuality and Community in Academic Writing''. Cambridge: Cambridge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alister Cumming
Alister Henry Cumming (born 1953) is a Canadian linguist. He is currently a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. He is most noted for early studies of composing processes in a second language in the 1980s, establishing that writing skills transfer from first to second languages, adopting Goal Theory from educational psychology to the study of second language writing research, and for his contributions to language testing. Career Cumming obtained his Bachelor of Arts at the University of British Columbia in 1975, and a Master of Arts in 1979. He received his PhD at the University of Toronto in 1988. He has been a member of the editorial board of the ''Journal of Second Language Writing'' and a dozen other scholarly and professional journals, including ''Language Learning'', which he edited in the 1990s and for which he was its executive director until 2015. He was also a member of the project, Encouraging The Culture Of Evaluation Among Professionals (ECEP). Rese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Readability
Readability is the ease with which a reader can understand a written text. In natural language, the readability of text depends on its content (the complexity of its vocabulary and syntax) and its presentation (such as typographic aspects that affect legibility, like font size, line height, character spacing, and line length). Researchers have used various factors to measure readability, such as: * Speed of perception * Perceptibility at a distance * Perceptibility in peripheral vision * Visibility * Reflex blink technique * Rate of work (reading speed) * Eye movements * Fatigue in reading * Cognitively-motivated features * Word difficulty * N-gram analysis * Semantic Richness Higher readability eases reading effort and speed for any reader, but it makes a larger difference for those who do not have high reading comprehension. Readability exists in both natural language and programming languages though in different forms. In programming, things such as programmer comments, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Language Writing
Second language writing is the study of writing performed by non-native speakers/writers of a language as second language, a second or foreign language. In addition to disseminating research through the ''Journal of Second Language Writing'', scholars in the field regularly participate in three academic conferences, the Symposium on Second Language Writing, the TESOL convention, and the Conference on College Composition and Communication. History Before the 1960s, the focus of Teaching English as a second or foreign language, English language teaching was on producing or preparing graduates of ESL schools who successfully can pass Citizenship test, citizenship tests to be able to work. During industrialization the most needed skills were reading and speaking skills. Although immigrants struggled with writing in their second language, it was not the necessary skill needed by the industrialization at that time. Scholars at that time, mostly phoneticians, argued that spoken language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
