Negative Language Transfer Identification in the English Writing of Chinese and Farsi Native Speakers

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40593-025-00468-8" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40593-025-00468-8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40593-025-00468-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s40593-025-00468-8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Negative Language Transfer Identification in the English Writing of Chinese and Farsi Native Speakers

Original language description

Effective communication in English can facilitate educational and employment opportunities for learners of English as an additional language (EAL) who tend to employ rules from their native language while communicating in English. This results in negative language transfer (NLT) when the rules from the mother tongue do not match those of English. One way of assisting EAL learners is to identify NLT errors in their English writing as a first step in the feedback process. However, manually identifying and providing feedback on learner NLT is a difficult task that requires time and expertise. A model that automatically identifies NLT in learner writing could facilitate this process. In this study, four classification algorithms were implemented to identify NLT in EAL learner writing automatically. Two of the language modelling approaches employed to classify learner errors (n-gram and recurrent neural network) were grounded in the linguistic nature of NLT, whereas the other two classifiers were general-purpose classifiers (random forest and logistic regression). The results show that the models could identify NLT in the English writing of Chinese and Farsi native speakers. Random forest outperformed all other models, yielding average weighted F1-scores of 78.1% on the Chinese FCE dataset and 94.8% on the Farsi Lang-8 dataset. This work shows that the implemented models could be used to automatically identify NLT errors in the English writing of Chinese and Farsi native speakers. The correct identification of such errors and subsequent provisioning of appropriate feedback could facilitate language learning and improve educational and employment opportunities for EAL leaners. © International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society 2025.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education

ISSN

1560-4292

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

35

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

39

Pages from-to

2215-2253

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105001635081