Breaking the Language Barrier: A Game-Changing Approach

I'm pleased to announce my free ebook Breaking the Language Barrier: A Game-Changing Approach, which presents emerging ideas and implementations in computer-assisted language learning (CALL), second language reading and writing aids and machine translation (MT).

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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

1.1.1.5. A Newer Design: A Data-Driven Approach

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)