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Akhlaghi-Baghoojari, Elham; Bédi, Branislav; Chua, Cathy; Horváthová, Ivana; Ivanova, Nedelina; Maizonniaux, Christèle; Mykhats, Marta; Chiaráin, Neasa Ní; Rayner, Manny; Orian Weiss, Catherine; Zviel-Girshin, Rina – Research-publishing.net, 2022
We present a study in which multimedia alphabet books were constructed for ten languages using the Learning And Reading Assistant (LARA) platform. We describe the alphabet books we built, the different design features they instantiate, and an initial evaluation using an anonymous online questionnaire. Links are provided to the books themselves,…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Childrens Literature, Electronic Books, Second Language Learning
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Bédi, Branislav; Chua, Cathy; Habibi, Hanieh; Martinez-Lopez, Ruth; Rayner, Manny – Research-publishing.net, 2019
This paper presents a brief overview of LARA (Learning And Reading Assistant), an open source online tool that has been under development since summer 2018. LARA currently contains a corpus of about 25 texts in ten languages and a crowdsourcing model used to expand the corpus. The central goal is to provide support for improving second language…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Indo European Languages, Computational Linguistics, Reading Comprehension
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Okada, Takeshi; Sakamoto, Yasunobu; Sugiura, Kensuke – Research-publishing.net, 2014
This paper illustrates the general idea of an on-going project for the development of a new blended e-learning package for the English as a foreign language (EFL) reading instruction in Japanese universities. The authors want to draw the attention of the readers to the Learning Management System (LMS) of the package and focus on the role a new…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Management Systems, Electronic Learning, English (Second Language)