Project - Programming Section
You are about to create a system that either a website OR an application. The system should be created to help Arabic students learn English language more effectively by avoiding typical mistakes. The system is a 300 character at most typed by the student.
In this system, you have to use ALC (Arabic Learner Corpus) to study the nature of the Arabic language. Knowing the nature of the language along with other references will allow you as a programmer to detect the typical mistakes that might Arab students fall in.
The URL for the ALC: https://www.arabiclearnercorpus.com/#!corpus-use-en/corh
The system should work on Windows 8 (64-bit) software. You may use any non-proprietary language such as Python to create this system.
Note that you need to use UGI, which is friendly for Arab students of age 15+. Moreover, you need to notify the mistaken student the location of the mistake along with the correction in appropriate way with informing the student the grammatical rule that is related to his/her mistake. (Hint: Depending on the programming language you'll use to create your system, you'll have to use an English corpus -of your choice- to allow you to make the corrections and specify the grammatical rule)
Documenting Section
- You need to show me the statistics you made or the method that allow you to detect the typical mistakes that Arab students may fall in (at least four grammatical mistakes)
- You need to provide me a clear READ_ME file that includes information about your system (brief intro about your system - the programming language) along with the instructions of how to use your code and run it in other PC's of same one you used to create your system (Windows 8 (64-bit).
(Note: I found the mistakes that I need you to work on because of the time limitations. They are listed after this paragraph. So, you will need to find out how I got them by studying the nature of the Arabic Language as I described above.)
Here are the typical mistakes that need you to check weather they're found the sentences of the student or not. In case any of them is found, you need to point it, correct it, and provide the grammatical rule you used to correct it:
1. Since Arab students are usually writing from right to left in the Arabic language, and the ordering of the adj-noun combination is the opposite of what is in the English language, students are more mistake maker in such a thing. (For example: saying the sentence "My state ID is expired" is usually written and spoken by the beginners of Arab English language students as "My ID state is expired". Note: This point needs your attention as a programmer to the related adj-noun in a sentence while designing your way to fix such a mistake.
2. Arabic has no verb to be in the present tense, and no auxiliary do. Furthermore, there is a single present tense in Arabic, as compared to English, which has the simple and continuous forms. These differences result in errors such as She good teacher, When you come to Germany?, I flying to Egypt tomorrow or Where he going? Moreover, having no modal verbs in Arabic. This, for example, leads to: From the possible that I am late. (I may be late.) Another common mistake is to infer that an auxiliary is needed and make mistakes such as: Do I must do that? You need to fix such a problem if appeared in a sentence.
3. Work on the punctuation mistakes, the upper/lower case letters, and the a/an appearance in the sentences since Arabic make no distinction between upper and lower case, and the rules for punctuation are much looser than in English.
4. The indefinite article does not exist in Arabic, leading to its omission when English requires it. There is a definite article but its use is not identical with the use of the definite article in English. In particular, Arab learners have problems with genitive constructions such as the boy's dog. In Arabic this would be expressed as Dog the boy, which is how such constructions may be conveyed into English.