{"id":275,"date":"2019-11-07T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/?p=275"},"modified":"2019-11-17T20:28:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T19:28:02","slug":"smartool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/clear\/2019\/11\/07\/smartool\/","title":{"rendered":"SMARTool: The Strategic Mastery of Russian Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Principal investigator:<\/strong> Laura A. Janda<\/p>\n

Project title:<\/strong> SMARTool: The Strategic Mastery of Russian Tool<\/p>\n

Summary of the project: <\/strong><\/p>\n

The SMARTool is a free web resource for L2 learners of Russian that implements findings of a learning simulation experiment and corpus research to optimize the acquisition of Russian vocabulary and morphology. Corpus data\u00a0(Janda & Tyers 2018)<\/a>\u00a0reveals that for any given Russian lexeme, only a few (usually 1-3) wordforms account for nearly all attestations, while remaining wordforms are rare or unattested. Our computational learning experiment shows that learning of Russian inflection is best when training is restricted to high frequency wordforms. The SMARTool builds on these findings for a basic vocabulary of 3000 nouns, adjectives, and verbs culled from major textbooks and other sources to represent levels A1, A2, B1, and B2 (CEFR scale). We have identified both a) the three most frequent wordforms for each lexeme (reducing the target number of wordforms to learn from 150,000 to 9,000) and b) the most typical grammatical constructions and collocations that motivate each wordform. We have also created c) corpus-based example sentences instantiating typical use.<\/p>\n

Audio for all sentences (in both female and male voices) and English translations are available at the click of a button. The SMARTool has filters that facilitate searching by: a) CEFR Level, b) Topic (such as \u0432\u0440\u0435\u043c\u044f\/time, \u0435\u0434\u0430\/food, \u0437\u0434\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0432\u044c\u0435\/health etc.), c) Analysis (such as Ins.Sing, facilitating grammatical exercises), and d) Dictionary form.<\/p>\n

Janda, Laura A. & Francis M. Tyers. 2018. Less is More: Why All Paradigms are Defective, and Why that is a Good Thing. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 14(2), 33pp.\u00a0doi.org\/10.1515\/cllt-2018-0031<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other team members on this project:<\/strong><\/p>\n