A Pedagogical Application of NooJ in Language Teaching: The Adjective in Spanish and Italian

Andrea Rodrigo, Mario Monteleone, Silvia Reyes


Abstract
In this paper, a pedagogical application of NooJ to the teaching and learning of Spanish as a foreign language is presented, which is directed to a specific addressee: learners whose mother tongue is Italian. The category ‘adjective’ has been chosen on account of its lower frequency of occurrence in texts written in Spanish, and particularly in the Argentine Rioplatense variety, and with the aim of developing strategies to increase its use. In addition, the features that the adjective shares with other grammatical categories render it extremely productive and provide elements that enrich the learners’ proficiency. The reference corpus contains the front pages of the Argentinian newspaper Clarín related to an emblematic historical moment, whose starting point is 24 March 1976, when a military coup began, and covers a thirty year period until 24 March 2006. It can be seen how the term desaparecido emerges with all its cultural and social charge, providing a context which allows an approach to Rioplatense Spanish from a more comprehensive perspective. Finally, a pedagogical proposal accounting for the application of the NooJ platform in language teaching is included.
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W18-3807
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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Linguistic Resources for Natural Language Processing
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August
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2018
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Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Peter Machonis, Anabela Barreiro, Kristina Kocijan, Max Silberztein
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LR4NLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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47–56
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Andrea Rodrigo, Mario Monteleone, and Silvia Reyes. 2018. A Pedagogical Application of NooJ in Language Teaching: The Adjective in Spanish and Italian. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Linguistic Resources for Natural Language Processing, pages 47–56, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Pedagogical Application of NooJ in Language Teaching: The Adjective in Spanish and Italian (Rodrigo et al., LR4NLP 2018)
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