COMPUTER ASSISTED WRITING- APPLICATIONS TO ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE.pdf

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COMPUTER ASSISTED WRITING- APPLICATIONS TO ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE.pdf

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COMPUTER ASSISTED WRITING- APPLICATIONS TO ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Published in CALL, Volume 6 (2), pp. 145-161 COMPUTER ASSISTED WRITING - APPLICATIONS TO ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE Niura M. Fontana + , Sandra M. A. Caldeira * , M. Cristina F. De Oliveira * , and Osvaldo N. Oliveira Jr. ** * Departamento de Computa??o e Estatística, ICMSC, USP CP 668, 13560-970 S?o Carlos, S.P. - Brazil + Departamento de Letras, Universidade de Caxias do Sul CP 1352, 95070-970 Caxias do Sul, R.S. - Brazil ** Instituto de Física e Química de S?o Carlos, USP CP 369, 13560-970 S?o Carlos, S.P. - Brazil Abstract Preliminary results on the use of a computer writing tool aimed at assisting non-native users of English in the preparation of scientific papers are presented. The environment - named AMADEUS - implements a resource based on the compilation of well-written expressions appearing in scientific texts. Template-expressions with blank spaces where reference to specific material is expected are stored in a sentences base and may then be used as reference material by non-native writers. The efficacy of the resource proposed was analysed by the monitoring of texts produced by Brazilian students. Positive aspects which emerged from the use of AMADEUS include helping users to get started with their writing tasks, to improve text organisation, and also to cope with global writing problems in a way other resources can not do. 21. Introduction A number of writing tools have been developed over the past few years aimed at assisting the writer in the various stages of different writing tasks. Most of these are postwriting evaluation tools (Williams, 1989; MacDonald, 1982) which detect spelling, style and gramatical mistakes and assess the readability of a given text. Some tools, such as outliners and ideas organisers (Wayner, 1992; Stefik, 1987) provide help in the structuring of the text and may be considered as preprocessing tools. There are also tools which make use of re-usable texts in order to enhance the production of standard documents (Born,