Free ebook: "Breaking the Language Barrier: A Game-Changing Approach"

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This free ebook by Ziyuan Yao presents emerging ideas and implementations in computer-assisted language learning (CALL), second language reading and writing aids and machine translation (MT).

 Table of Contents

Overview

Chapter 1: Breaking the Language Barrier with Language Learning

1.1. Foreign Language Acquisition

1.1.1. L1-Driven L2 Teaching! (L1DL2T)

1.1.1.1. The Idea

1.1.1.2. Why Is It the Best? A Proof

1.1.1.3. Historical Developments

1.1.1.4. An Example System Design

1.1.1.4.1. Overview

1.1.1.4.2. ATLAS Mission Profiles

1.1.1.4.3. ATLAS User Profiles

1.1.1.4.4. Data Acquisition Strategies

1.1.2. Word Mnemonics

1.1.2.1. Essential Mnemonics

1.1.2.1.1. Phonetically Intuitive English! (PIE)

1.1.2.1.2. Etymology and Free Association

1.1.2.1.3. Why Are They Essential? A Proof

1.1.2.2. Other Mnemonics

1.1.2.2.1. Orthographically Intuitive English (OIE)

1.1.2.2.2. Progressive Word Acquisition (PWA)

1.1.2.3. Principles Learned

1.2. Foreign Language Writing Aids

1.2.1. Predictive vs. Corrective Writing Aids

1.2.2. Input-Driven Syntax Aid! (IDSA)

1.2.3. Input-Driven Ontology Aid! (IDOA)

1.3. Foreign Language Reading Aids

Chapter 2: Breaking the Language Barrier with Little Learning

2.1. Foreign Language Understanding

2.1.1. Syntax-Preserving Machine Translation! (SPMT)

2.2. Foreign Language Generation

2.2.1. Formal Language Machine Translation! (FLMT)