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Nazlinur Gokturk; Evgeny Chukharev – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
While several studies support the appropriateness of tasks delivered through Spoken Dialog Systems (SDSs) for L2 oral communication assessment, few studies have explored the construct of interactional competence (IC) as measured by such tasks. This study aims to address this gap in the literature by investigating the use of IC features by high-…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Interpersonal Communication, Interaction, Dialogs (Language)
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Yuko Hayashi; Yusuke Kondo; Yutaka Ishii – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
Purpose: This study builds a new system for automatically assessing learners' speech elicited from an oral discourse completion task (DCT), and evaluates the prediction capability of the system with a view to better understanding factors deemed influential in predicting speaking proficiency scores and the pedagogical implications of the system.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Japanese
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Chukharev-Hudilainen, Evgeny; Ockey, Gary J. – ETS Research Report Series, 2021
This paper describes the development and evaluation of Interaction Competence Elicitor (ICE), a spoken dialog system (SDS) for the delivery of a paired oral discussion task in the context of language assessment. The purpose of ICE is to sustain a topic-specific conversation with a test taker in order to elicit discourse that can be later judged to…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Oral Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Error Analysis (Language)
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Tocaimaza-Hatch, C. Cecilia; Santo, Jonathan – Language Teaching Research, 2023
Spanish learners engaged in two-way interaction gap tasks where, through social interaction, they identified and defined low-frequency vocabulary. Participants (referred to as actors to differentiate them from task partners) completed two such tasks. Each time, they collaborated with different partners of varying degrees of Spanish proficiency and…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
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Baleghizadeh, Sasan; Oladrostam, Elnaz – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2011
Teaching grammar in a way that enables students to use grammatical structures correctly in their active use has always been one of the intricate tasks for most practitioners. This study compared the effectiveness of three instructional methods: games, dialogues practiced through role-play, and unfocused tasks for teaching grammar. Forty-eight…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis
Keesee, Elizabeth – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1960
The growing practice of beginning instruction in a modern foreign language in the elementary school has created a need for many classroom teachers to become oriented to a whole new field of foreign-language teaching methodology and materials. Since teachers tend to think of language instruction in terms of the English-language arts, the language…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Age, Second Language Instruction, Listening Comprehension