This paper details the use of a free and access-controlled wiki as the learning management system for a four-week teaching module designed to improve the oral communication skills of Japanese university EFL students. Students engaged in repeated experiential learning cycles of planning, doing, observing, and evaluating their performance of a role…

A classifier which is capable of distinguishing a syntactically well formed sentence from a syntactically ill formed one has the potential to be useful in an L2 language-learning context. In this article, we describe a classifier which classifies English sentences as either well formed or ill formed using information gleaned from three different…

Didascalia, a Belgian research group, has developed Verbochip, a computer program dealing with the formation and contextual uses of English tenses, based on the principle of external versatility. The content base includes various fields with information that allows the content to be implemented in a selection system that fits the user's own…