Redefining "paradigm" for computer-aided language instruction Academic Article

abstract

• Abstract: This article proposes a means by which inflectional paradigms can be promoted from their primary present status as references at the end of textbooks to a more central role in the language learning process. This can be done by encouraging each student to determine how words of a given part of speech divide into paradigms, and how those paradigms will be visually represented. This reinterpretation of the largely frozen notion of paradigm is derived from work on a natural language processing system that required a more rigorous definition of the word than is commonly found in most descriptive grammars. That natural language processing system, and its potential application to the task of language learning, are described in this article as well.

authors

• McShane, Michael

published proceedings

• FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS

author list (cited authors)

• McShane, M.

citation count

• 2

complete list of authors

• McShane, M

publication date

• May 2003

publisher

• Wiley  Publisher

published in

• Foreign Language Annals  Journal

keywords

• 39 Education
• 3904 Specialist Studies In Education

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2003.tb01470.x

start page

• 198

end page

• 207

volume

• 36

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1944-9720.2003.tb01470.x