ICT and metalinguistic competence: Developing phonetic transcription skills through regular expressions
The present paper describes an applied linguistics experiment aiming to evaluate the appropriateness of regular expressions (regex) to improve foreign language students' ability to identify the relationship between the graphic (letters) and phonic (phonemes) units of a language. Since the focus...
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Université Marc Bloch
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| description | The present paper describes an applied linguistics experiment aiming to evaluate the appropriateness of regular expressions (regex) to improve foreign language students' ability to identify the relationship between the graphic (letters) and phonic (phonemes) units of a language. Since the focus of the study is on metalinguistic rather than linguistic skills, the native language of the participants–L1 Italian–was chosen to this purpose. Specifically, regexes were used to formalise the phonological transcription rule of a set of graphemes (eg /ʃa/) well known for causing transcription errors due to the interference of orthography. Both before (T1) and after (T2), the regex formalisation task, 255 university students of foreign languages were asked to verbally explain the relevant transcription rules and transcribe a set of words containing the grapheme of interest. The results show that indeed, the accuracy of transcriptions and metalinguistics accounts significantly improved after the task. A discussion of the possible applications of regexes in the training of students of foreign languages and linguistics concludes the paper. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8e21f2d69b2c406d9f4a75bbed2edfee2025-08-20T02:37:45ZfraUniversité Marc BlochALSIC: Apprentissage des Langues et Systèmes d'Information et de Communication1286-49862023-06-0126310.4000/alsic.6554ICT and metalinguistic competence: Developing phonetic transcription skills through regular expressionsJacopo SaturnoThe present paper describes an applied linguistics experiment aiming to evaluate the appropriateness of regular expressions (regex) to improve foreign language students' ability to identify the relationship between the graphic (letters) and phonic (phonemes) units of a language. Since the focus of the study is on metalinguistic rather than linguistic skills, the native language of the participants–L1 Italian–was chosen to this purpose. Specifically, regexes were used to formalise the phonological transcription rule of a set of graphemes (eg /ʃa/) well known for causing transcription errors due to the interference of orthography. Both before (T1) and after (T2), the regex formalisation task, 255 university students of foreign languages were asked to verbally explain the relevant transcription rules and transcribe a set of words containing the grapheme of interest. The results show that indeed, the accuracy of transcriptions and metalinguistics accounts significantly improved after the task. A discussion of the possible applications of regexes in the training of students of foreign languages and linguistics concludes the paper.https://journals.openedition.org/alsic/6554mother tonguespellingItalianlanguage awarenessregex |
| spellingShingle | Jacopo Saturno ICT and metalinguistic competence: Developing phonetic transcription skills through regular expressions ALSIC: Apprentissage des Langues et Systèmes d'Information et de Communication mother tongue spelling Italian language awareness regex |
| title | ICT and metalinguistic competence: Developing phonetic transcription skills through regular expressions |
| title_full | ICT and metalinguistic competence: Developing phonetic transcription skills through regular expressions |
| title_fullStr | ICT and metalinguistic competence: Developing phonetic transcription skills through regular expressions |
| title_full_unstemmed | ICT and metalinguistic competence: Developing phonetic transcription skills through regular expressions |
| title_short | ICT and metalinguistic competence: Developing phonetic transcription skills through regular expressions |
| title_sort | ict and metalinguistic competence developing phonetic transcription skills through regular expressions |
| topic | mother tongue spelling Italian language awareness regex |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/alsic/6554 |
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