Language Testing in Asia, 2021 The current study sought to examine the validity of a General English Achievement Test (GEAT), administered to university students in the fall semester of 2018–2019 academic year, by hybridizing differential information (DIF) and differential distractor ...
Mehri Jamalzadeh +2 more
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A set of free cross-platform authoring programs for flexible web-based CALL exercises
The EUROCALL Review, 2012 The Mango Suite is a set of three freely downloadable cross-platform authoring programs for flexible network-based CALL exercises. They are Adobe Air applications, so they can be used on Windows, Macintosh, or Linux computers, provided the freely ...
Myles O’Brien
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Distractor Analysis and Selection for Multiple-Choice Cloze Questions for Second-Language Learners [PDF]
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2020 We consider the problem of automatically suggesting distractors for multiple-choice cloze questions designed for second-language learners. We describe the creation of a dataset including collecting manual annotations for distractor selection. We assess the relationship between the choices of the annotators and features based on distractors and the ...
Lingyu Gao, Kevin Gimpel, Arnar Jensson
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A Case Study of Using Online Communities and Virtual Environment in Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) as a Learning and Teaching Tool for Second Language Learners [PDF]
, 2012 Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) create large virtual communities. Online gaming shows potential not just for entertaining, but also in education.
Kongmee, Isara +3 more
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Focus on form tasks and the provision of corrective feedback [PDF]
Ibérica, 2006 This paper examines how different tasks may provide learners with opportunities to produce output collaboratively (Swain 8 Lapkin, 1997) and receive teacher's feedback.
Patricia Salazar Campillo
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Empirical Verification of the Polish Formula of Text Difficulty
Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2015 Empirical Verification of the Polish Formula of Text Difficulty The aim of the study was to verify the accuracy of the formula for assessing the difficulty of texts written in Polish (Pisarek 1969).
Edyta Charzyńska +1 more
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La dimensione valutativa dell’apprendimento linguistico del greco antico
Educazione Linguistica Language Education, 2013 In the teaching of Ancient Greek and Latin, the method of contextual induction can be used instead of the traditional grammar translation method.
Ricucci, Marco
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An Analysis of the Relationship between Test Method, Personality Type, and Gender: A Case of the Iranian EFL Learners [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2004 During the last few decades of the twentieth century, many research studies have been carried out in order to delve into the construct-irrelevant factors affecting language test performance of EFL/ESL learners.
parviz birjandi, ghodrat rostamlou
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Who did What: A Large-Scale Person-Centered Cloze Dataset
, 2016 We have constructed a new "Who-did-What" dataset of over 200,000 fill-in-the-gap (cloze) multiple choice reading comprehension problems constructed from the LDC English Gigaword newswire corpus. The WDW dataset has a variety of novel features.
Bansal, Mohit +4 more
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Crowdsourcing Multiple Choice Science Questions
, 2017 We present a novel method for obtaining high-quality, domain-targeted multiple choice questions from crowd workers. Generating these questions can be difficult without trading away originality, relevance or diversity in the answer options.
Gardner, Matt +2 more
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