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Chunping Zheng; Xu Chen; Huayang Zhang; Ching Sing Chai – Language Learning & Technology, 2024
This quasi-experimental research investigates the employment of a formative assessment platform aided by artificial intelligence in an English public speaking course. The platform integrates deep learning, automatic speech recognition, and automatic writing evaluation. It provides automated assessment and immediate feedback on speakers' public…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Comparative Analysis, Feedback (Response), Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Christina Garcia; Dan Nickolai; Lillian Jones – CALICO Journal, 2020
This paper presents a 15-week classroom study measuring the student outcomes of instructor-led pronunciation lessons versus entirely ASR-based pronunciation training. Seventy-six second-semester Spanish language learners were divided into two groups, one experimental (n=44) and one control (n=32). Over the course of six modules, both groups…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Assisted Instruction, Spanish, Second Language Instruction
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Marwa F. Hafour – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Owing to the plethora of user-friendly audio/video creation and editing applications as well as free full-featured hosting platforms, videoing and sharing has become a lifestyle of today's students. Utilizing these spontaneous practices, the current study examined the effects of digital media assignments (DMAs) and accompanying asynchronous…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Video Technology
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Basal, Ahmet; Toraman, Muhammet; Celen, Kiymet Merve – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
Learning collocations poses difficulties for foreign language learners despite their importance for fluency in the target language. Collocation learning and teaching should therefore be an integral part of foreign language instruction. With a focus on the receptive knowledge of collocations, this 5-week-long pretest/posttest quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Achievement Tests
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Abdolrezapour, Parisa – ReCALL, 2017
Previous studies have shown that emotional intelligence (henceforth, EI) has a significant impact on important life outcomes (e.g., mental and physical health, academic achievement, work performance, and social relationships). This study aimed to see whether there is any relationship between EI and English as a foreign language (EFL) learners'…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Oral Language, Language Fluency, Correlation
Son, Joohee – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The current government in Korea, in order to encourage more fluent use of English, has shifted the focus of the English curriculum from language accuracy to language fluency by encouraging English teachers to use English as a classroom language. However, many English teachers in Korea feel burdened by this policy, mainly because they themselves…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Computer Software, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning