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Following the entry of Cyprus into the European Union in 2004 and based on the philosophy which underpins the language policy in Europe, the island has been investing heavily in early foreign language learning. However, despite improvements in English language learning in primar…

This dissertation focuses on two different but related natural language processing problems, namely, question answering and question generation. Automated question answering (QA) is the process of finding answers to natural language questions. This problem has been studied since…

To address a need for more research on teacher knowledge in second language education and applied linguistics, this study examined EFL teachers' practical knowledge and the background sources shaping their knowledge and classroom instruction. Data included three months of classr…