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Nowadays the computer-aided Communicative Language Teaching has been widely applied in Chinese universities. This paper is to prove the effectiveness and viability of it by using case studies through classroom observations, diary entries and interviews.
This paper shows the design and development of a project, accomplished at the beginning of the first year program of the computing engineering technical curriculum, based on the assessment of basic science subjects, together with the English language proficiency, with the purpose of developing and modifying, if necessary, the course syllabus in order to adapt the course content to the university general...
This paper addresses the ongoing issue of tone error detection for Mandarin Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) systems. A novel approach based on clustering is proposed. The selection of different contextual tonal factors including Uni-tone, LBi-tone and RBi-tone are explored. Experimental results show that our proposed approach is feasible, obtaining an Equal Error Rate (EER) of 18.75% by...
In order to solve the problems in process-oriented writing class of English major and promote students' autonomy in the course learning, a corpus-based teaching mode is proposed in present paper. It analyzes the roles of corpus in English teaching and learning and designs a new type of writing class arrangement, which can nicely apply advanced technology of modern corpus into the process of writing...
This paper presents a novel Semantic-Based Conversational Agent (CA) and its application to benefit students with debt who might otherwise face serious consequences, not only financially, but psychologically. The novel semantic-based CA interprets scripts consisting of natural language sentences by means of a sentence similarity measure. User input is measured semantically against the content of the...
Oral reading fluency is essential to overall reading achievements and repeat reading has been found to be an effective strategy for oral reading fluency. Choral reading is the most authentic use of repeated readings in the EFL primary grades. However, teachers have neither sufficient time nor adequate expertise to deal with non-fluent readers. Hence, challenges with oral reading fluency and motivation...
In a life-long learning context, learners have to perform a lot of writing-based activities, like document analysis, that are seldom assessed by teachers or tutors because this assessment is time-consuming. We introduce a service, Pensum, integrated in a PLE that helps students to understand a course content through writing a synthesis, as well as teachers and tutors to manage this activity. Based...
Based on the characteristics of using microblog in mobile learning environment, this study proposes a new approach, a location-based and knowledge-oriented microblogging system. To develop such microblogging system there are several principles and features that must be addressed. This study strives to build a foundation for the microblogging system by focusing on microblogging system framework for...
Distributed work is an increasingly common phenomenon in a number of technical and professional settings, and the complexity of this work requires high degrees of knowledge sharing and integration that move beyond assembly-line approaches to collaboration. Since participants in distributed-work settings rely almost exclusively on written and spoken language to mediate their collaborative relationships,...
This paper evaluates CONSPECT, a service that analyses states in a learner's conceptual development. It combines two technologies - Latent Semantic Analysis to analyse text and Network Analysis (NA) to provide visualisations - into a technique called Meaningful Interaction Analysis (MIA). CONSPECT was designed to help both online learners and their tutors monitor their conceptual development. This...
In Information Retrieval (IR), the similarity scores between a query and a set of documents are calculated, and the relevant documents are ranked based on their similarity scores. IR systems often consider queries as short documents containing only a few words in calculating document similarity score. In Computer Aided Assessment (CAA) of narrative answers, when model answers are available, the similarity...
In the course of deepening college English innovation, it has been observed that non-English majors' being deficient in cultural knowledge turns out to be a failure in English communication. Based on the analysis of some elements that hinder the cultural teaching, this thesis proposes some teaching strategies to improve the unsatisfactory phenomena so as to achieve the ultimate goal of the English...
Studies about the functional words knowledge base began in recent years. It has gotten some achievements. The functional words include adverbs, preposition, conjunction, auxiliary, and modality. The ldquotrinityrdquo knowledge-base of functional words has been initially built which includes function usage dictionary, usage rules-base and usage corpora. This paper bases on the previous work, and further...
This paper briefly reports on a collection of Korean word associations (KorWA). Then by constructing a Korean semantic network based on the data, it identifies some structural features and discusses about a potential support for semantic study and language learning.
In recent years, there are a large number of foreign students coming to learn Chinese language. However due to the characters of Chinese language, it is usually difficult for them to learn. In order to provide a suitable mobile environment to learn Chinese language for foreign students, this paper presents an approach to context-aware mobile chinese language learning (CAMCLL) for foreign students...
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