Using Pathfinder Network as a Measure of Lexical Structure of Bilingual Learners

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyung Kim ◽  
Roy B. Clariana ◽  
Yelim Mun
Keyword(s):  
Bilingual Learners ◽  
Lexical Structure ◽  
Pathfinder Network

Lexical Structure of the Poetic Text as a Key to the Comprehension of Its Inherent Values

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
Nina S. Bolotnova
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Sequential Analysis ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Lexical Structure ◽  
Poetic Text ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
The Russian Language

This article is aimed at presenting a methodology for the conceptual analysis of poetic texts based on their lexical structure using the theory of communicative stylistics. The lexical structure of the literary text is considered to be a means of aсquainting the reader with the values manifested therein. The study of values intertwined within written works is particularly significant for the development of an axiological approach to teaching the Russian language. This article proposes a method for a sequential analysis of the lexical structure of a poetic text, which can be used at Russian language lessons.

Translanguaging design in a third grade Chinese Language Arts class

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongfeng Tian
Keyword(s):  
Language Arts ◽  
Bilingual Education ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Dual Language ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Bilingual Learners ◽  
Allocation Policy ◽  
Link Type ◽  
Dual Language Bilingual Education

Abstract Traditionally strict language separation policies in dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs reflect parallel monolingualism and have been criticized as failing to recognize the sociolinguistic realities of bilingual students (García, Ofelia & Angel M. Y. Lin. 2017. Translanguaging in bilingual education. In Ofelia García, Angel M. Y. Lin & Stephen May (eds.), Bilingual and multilingual education, 117–130. Cham: Springer International Publishing). To recognize the dynamic nature of bilingualism and leverage bilingual learners’ full semiotic and linguistic repertoire as a resource, this study looks at how to strategically and purposefully develop flexible and multilingual educational spaces in a third grade Chinese Language Arts (CLA) class in a Mandarin-English DLBE program in the New England area, U.S. Drawing upon Sánchez, María Teresa (Maite), Ofelia García & Cristian Solorza. 2018. Reframing language allocation policy in dual language bilingual education. Bilingual Research Journal 41(1). 37–51. https://doi.org/10.1080/15235882.2017.1405098, translanguaging allocation policy framework, the researcher and the teacher co-designed and implemented translanguaging documentation, translanguaging rings, and translanguaging transformation spaces in the CLA class throughout the school year of 2018–19. Taking the form of participatory design research (Bang, Megan & Shirin Vossoughi. 2016. Participatory design research and educational justice: Studying learning and relations within social change making. Cognition and Instruction 34(3). 173–193. https://doi.org/10.1080/07370008.2016.1181879), this collaborative inquiry demonstrates that translanguaging pedagogies could promote student engagement, contribute to their academic learning, and build home-school connections. It aims to provide authentic, sustainable knowledge for both researchers and practitioners to better serve bilingual learners in DLBE programs.

scholarly journals Development of Memory Structures for Homographs Using Pathfinder Network Representations

2003 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Nievas ◽  
Fernando Justicia
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Priming ◽  
Cohort Effect ◽  
Stimulus Onset ◽  
Developmental Differences ◽  
Memory Structure ◽  
Short Stimulus Onset Asynchrony ◽  
Semantic Priming Effect ◽  
Short Stimulus ◽  
Pathfinder Network ◽  
Memory Structures

Some studies with children have shown that there is no semantic priming at short stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) in lexical decision and naming tasks for homographs. The predictions of spreading activation theories might explain this missing effect. There may be differences in children's and adults' memory structures. We have explored this hypothesis. The development of memory structure representations for homographs was measured by a Pathfinder algorithm. In Experiment 1, the three dependent variables were: the number of links in the network, closeness measures (C), and distances between nodes. Results revealed developmental differences in network structure representations in adults and children. In Experiment 2, results revealed that these differences were not due to the cohort effect. In Experiment 3, the relationship between associative strength, as measured by associative norms, and distances, as measured by Pathfinder algorithm, was explored. The results of these three experiments and empirical research from semantic priming experiments show that these differences in memory structure representations could be one of the sources of the missing semantic priming effect in children.

scholarly journals Imaging Implicit Morphological Processing: Evidence from Hebrew

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 1955-1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atira S. Bick ◽  
Ram Frost ◽  
Gadi Goelman
Keyword(s):  
Masked Priming ◽  
Statistical Correlation ◽  
Morphological Processing ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Semantic Transparency ◽  
Lexical Structure ◽  
The Neural Networks ◽  
Distinct Aspect ◽  
The Brain

Is morphology a discrete and independent element of lexical structure or does it simply reflect a fine-tuning of the system to the statistical correlation that exists among orthographic and semantic properties of words? Hebrew provides a unique opportunity to examine morphological processing in the brain because of its rich morphological system. In an fMRI masked priming experiment, we investigated the neural networks involved in implicit morphological processing in Hebrew. In the lMFG and lIFG, activation was found to be significantly reduced when the primes were morphologically related to the targets. This effect was not influenced by the semantic transparency of the morphological prime, and was not found in the semantic or orthographic condition. Additional morphologically related decrease in activation was found in the lIPL, where activation was significantly modulated by semantic transparency. Our findings regarding implicit morphological processing suggest that morphology is an automatic and distinct aspect of visually processing words. These results also coincide with the behavioral data previously obtained demonstrating the central role of morphological processing in reading Hebrew.

Opening doors for bilingual students: Recommendations for building linguistically responsive schools

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy J Heineke ◽  
Elizabeth Coleman ◽  
Elizabeth Ferrell ◽  
Craig Kersemeier
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Bilingual Students ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Effective School ◽  
Bilingual Learners ◽  
School Structures ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

In this article, we outline the necessary action steps for schools to improve the achievement of bilingual students. We review, summarize, and utilize the pertinent scholarly literature to make suggestions for school-wide, collaborative efforts to support the achievement of bilingual learners through linguistically responsive pedagogy and practice. Our research-based recommendations include the need for school actors to negotiate language policy and mandates, lay the necessary ideological foundations, build effective school structures and systems, and foster meaningful collaboration with families and communities. When teachers, administrators, counselors, families, and community members work together, schools can improve to promote the social, cultural, linguistic, and academic achievement of bilingual students.

Empirical User Modeling: Command Usage Analyses for Deriving Models of Users

1987 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew P. Anderson ◽  
James E. McDonald ◽  
Roger W. Schvaneveldt
Keyword(s):  
Operating System ◽  
User Modeling ◽  
Procedural Knowledge ◽  
Structural Models ◽  
Network Representation ◽  
User Behaviors ◽  
Unix Operating System ◽  
Usage Patterns ◽  
Unix Command ◽  
Pathfinder Network

Models of users' procedural knowledge were derived from the records of command usage obtained from nine experienced users of the Unix operating system. Pairwise transitions between user command entries were analyzed for the purpose of identifying salient command patterns associated with task-based user behaviors. Structural models of command usage patterns were obtained from Pathfinder network scaling of Unix command events. The network representation of command patterns was evaluated as a method for abstracting users' procedural knowledge. These network scaling solutions revealed patterns that were common both within and across users' command usage.

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