The NBU e-Platform in Teaching Foreign Languages for Specific Purposes
The NBU e-Platform in Teaching Foreign Languages for Specific Purposes
Author(s): Maria Stambolieva, Milka Hadjikoteva, Mariya Neykova, Mariyana Raykova, Valentina IvanovaSubject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Economy, Education, Foreign languages learning, Higher Education , ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Нов български университет
Keywords: e-Learning; Language technologies; FLT; FLTSP; Educational platforms; Concordancing; Lemmatisation; alignment; Corpus analysis; Automatic generation and assessment of tests; K3: Computer Uses in ED
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 (lemmatization, POS, morphological and morphemic analysis, syntactic analysis, parallel text alignment); 4/ the generation of text-based drills and tests; 5/ automatic test assessment.
Journal: Computer Science and Education in Computer Science
- Issue Year: 13/2017
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 203-217
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English