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  2. Teaching English as a second or foreign language - Wikipedia

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    In Cambodian schools today, however, English is taught from grade seven and is the most popular foreign language studied. Adults can learn English with informal education programs. [38] Professional, institutional, and governmental motivations exist for teaching and learning English as a foreign language. [39]

  3. Induction of regular languages - Wikipedia

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    The L* algorithm and its generalizations have significant implications in the field of automata theory and formal language learning, as they demonstrate the feasibility of efficiently learning more expressive automata models, such as NFA and AFA, which can represent languages more concisely and capture more complex patterns compared to ...

  4. Glossary of language education terms - Wikipedia

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    Language learning requirements To learn language, students have four needs: They must be exposed to the language. They must understand its meaning and structure. And they must practice it. Teachers should hold their students as able. They should not over-explain or make things too easy. Learning comes through discovery. Language skills

  5. Language exchange - Wikipedia

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    Language Travelling has increased significantly over the last three years, with an increase of 67%. [4] However, there are also concerns that language exchanges cannot be used as a substitute for formal language education, given the difficulty of using language exchanges in learning formal grammar and writing skills.

  6. Language education - Wikipedia

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    Language exchange sites connect users with complementary language skills, such as a native Spanish speaker who wants to learn English with a native English speaker who wants to learn Spanish. Language exchange websites essentially treat knowledge of a language as a commodity, and provide a marketlike environment for the commodity to be exchanged.

  7. Formalism (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, formal rules can be applied outside of logic or mathematics to human language, treating it as a mathematical formal system with a formal grammar. [ 27 ] A characteristic stance of formalist approaches is the primacy of form (like syntax ), and the conception of language as a system in isolation from the outer world.

  8. Vocabulary learning - Wikipedia

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    Vocabulary learning is the process acquiring building blocks in second language acquisition Restrepo Ramos (2015). The impact of vocabulary on proficiency in second language performance "has become […] an object of considerable interest among researchers, teachers, and materials developers" (Huckin & Coady, 1999, p. 182).

  9. Register (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In sociolinguistics, a register is a variety of language used for a particular purpose or particular communicative situation. For example, when speaking officially or in a public setting, an English speaker may be more likely to follow prescriptive norms for formal usage than in a casual setting, for example, by pronouncing words ending in -ing with a velar nasal instead of an alveolar nasal ...