Teacher Perception of Automatically Extracted Grammar Concepts for L2 Language Learning (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Language teachers need to be accessible and have the necessary resources to create effective content for their students. |
| Approach: | They propose to extract grammar descriptions from a natural text corpus that answer questions about morphosyntax and semantics from lexical corpus. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is applied to two Indian languages, Kannada and Marathi, which, unlike English, do not have well-developed resources for second language learning. |
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