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Kochem, Tim; Beck, Jeanne; Goodale, Erik – CALICO Journal, 2022
Technology has paved the way for new modalities in language learning, teaching, and assessment. However, there is still a great deal of work to be done to develop such tools for oral communication, specifically tools that address suprasegmental features in pronunciation instruction. Therefore, this critical literature review examines how…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Teaching Methods, Audio Equipment, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Liu, Sha; Kunnan, Antony John – CALICO Journal, 2016
This study investigated the application of "WriteToLearn" on Chinese undergraduate English majors' essays in terms of its scoring ability and the accuracy of its error feedback. Participants were 163 second-year English majors from a university located in Sichuan province who wrote 326 essays from two writing prompts. Each paper was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Trace, Jonathan; Brown, James Dean; Rodriguez, Julio – CALICO Journal, 2018
This study examines how technology is perceived by different stakeholder groups in The Language Flagship programs. We administered questionnaires to three stakeholder groups: 14 directors, 34 instructors, and 100 learners at a variety of institutions with three goals: (a) to investigate what technologies the directors, instructors, and learners…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Administrator Attitudes
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Meunier, Lydie E. – CALICO Journal, 1994
Computer adaptive language testing (CALT) offers a variety of advantages; however, since CALT cannot test the multidimensional nature of language, it does not assess communicative/functional language. This article proposes to replace multiple choice and cloze formats and to apply CALT to live-action simulations. (18 references) (LB)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Assisted Testing, Evaluation Problems
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Coniam, David – CALICO Journal, 1998
Analyzes results of a previous study on speech recognition (SR) technology for its ability to distinguish between native- and nonnative English speakers. The current study concludes that SR technology has potential for testing the oral proficiency of English-as-a-Second-Language students.(ER)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software, English (Second Language)
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Coniam, David – CALICO Journal, 1997
Describes the process for generating, from a text, three types of multiple-choice vocabulary cloze tests: one based on n-th word deletion, one using user-specified frequency ranges, and one based on a particular word class. The article discusses the extent to which good test material can be produced realistically by computer-aided systems and the…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Assisted Testing, Databases