Ontology-Based Analysis Of An English Language Learner Narrative: A Case Study

Abstract

Exploring the learners' needs is mandatory and very essential for languages learning. Utilizing the updated technology for meeting the best learning environments to accommodate languages learners worldwide is one of the top priorities to solve this challenge. Research indicates that learners have unique ways of learning; therefore, investigating learners' narratives is significant for the purpose of meeting individual needs. This paper followed a qualitative-thematic analysis of a case study narrative of an English language learner. It also incorporates the semantic web technologies using ontology-based analysis as a supplementary tool. This approach of using ontology serves to define the analyzed themes with specified relationships between them represented in visualizations from protégé 5.5 software. Thus, this learner's profile of patterns analysis would be a semantic resource for language learning environments as well as useful source for language teachers and researchers in both Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing tools.