Electronic dictionaries in educational process in higher education

The paper considers an application of electronic dictionaries in the educational process as a promising method adapting modern education to the increasing information flow. The possibilities of using electronic dictionaries prove them to be a source of high-quality reference material and useful and necessary modern tool in foreign language learning. The paper points out the functionality of electronic dictionaries, their advantages and disadvantages. The opportunities of electronic dictionaries are wide enough: speed, convenience in finding information, large volume, sound and graphic illustration of the word, spell checker, interactivity, text conciseness, etc. Electronic dictionaries are based on modern lexical material, reflecting the language and speech tendencies, making the translation process fast and interactive, thus becoming a universal tool in the educational process of higher education. The authors point out that students have the opportunity to use the digital resource during lectures, practical studies and independent work.

The Development of Spell Checker Android Application to Improve Students’ Pronunciation of English Education Department, IAIN Jember

Pronunciation and vocabulary are important elements of language so a communication will be difficult if the speaker cannot pronounce the elements or words accurately. However, in learning in class, limited time causes lecturers to have difficulty checking the pronunciation of English students one by one. So that technology is needed to improve students’ pronunciation competence independently and measurably. This study aims to develop a spell checker application that is integrated with the lecture module. This application aims to improve the English pronunciation ability of students independently and measurably so as to save time. The research method is a design and development method with 6 stages. The product validation results showed that this application is feasible to use with the acquisition of a feasibility percentage of 89%.

Derivational Morphology of Assamese Lexical Word Categories

Word formation by derivation is very productive in Assamese. A significant amount of words in Assamese owe their origin to derivation. The analysis in this paper takes into account the derivational processes related with lexical word categories, and, numerous bound morphemes that are used in the derivational process in the language. This analysis helps us to understand some of the important aspects of Assamese morphology. These aspects are - role of class maintaining and class changing morphemes, derivation of word from synonyms, productivity of derivational morphemes, morphophonemic changes in root as a result of affixation of derivational morphemes, presence of allomorphs of various bound morphemes, ability of a morpheme to derive words from different word categories. The significance of this papers lies in the fact that these word formation processes could help develop morphological rules that can be used for developing computational morphological tools like- stemmer, spell checker, tagger etc.

THE ROLE OF THE UDMURT SPELL CHECKER IN REPLENISHMENT OF THE UDMURT NATIONAL CORPUS

Corpus linguistics is currently one of the most popular sections of linguistics. Most of the major languages of the world today already have their own digital corpora of tens and hundreds of millions of word usage. Recently, special attention has also been paid to the creation of text corpus in the languages of the peoples of Russia, since, on the one hand, corpus research allows you to look at the structure of the language from a completely different perspective, on the other hand, the corpus is a kind of form of storing language data. The article describes the Udmurt National Corpus, which has been developed since the end of 2019 by the staff of the philological research department of the Udmurt Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Udmurt Federal Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It speaks in detail about the capabilities of the information and reference system being created at the moment, as well as about the prospects for using the corpus of texts when conducting research, preparing dictionaries, and creating various programs in the Udmurt language. The article also deals with the Hunspell-based Udmurt spell checker developed by Grigory Grigoriev, which plays an important role in replenishing the Udmurt National Corps. Before uploading new texts to the site, all of them are subjected to a mandatory check for spelling errors that could remain during their proofreading. This extension for text editors, thanks to the vocabulary database associated with the affix file, which contains all possible morphological variants of the lexemes of the main dictionary, identifies spelling errors in the text, allowing you to upload the most verified texts to the website of the Udmurt National Corpus.