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Xuefan Li; Tingsong Li; Minjuan Wang; Sining Tao; Xiaoxu Zhou; Xiaoqing Wei; Naiqing Guan – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2025
With the rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence (GAI), its application in educational settings has increasingly become a focal point, particularly in enhancing students' analytical capabilities. This study examines the effectiveness of the ChatGPT prompt framework in improving text analysis skills among students, specifically…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, High School Students, Foreign Countries
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Ya-Mei Chen – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2024
This study explores the way translation crowdsourcing may contribute to metacognitive translator training through a teaching experiment where Global Voices Lingua was integrated into an undergraduate English-Chinese translation course. In doing so, the study investigates how translation students' awareness of conditional knowledge and its…
Descriptors: Translation, Metacognition, Second Languages, Language Processing
UK Department for Education, 2024
This report sets out the findings of the technical development work completed as part of the Use Cases for Generative AI in Education project, commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE) in September 2023. It has been published alongside the User Research Report, which sets out the findings from the ongoing user engagement activity…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Software, Computational Linguistics
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Yang, Kyungmo; Bae, Jiyoung – English Teaching, 2022
The purpose of this study was to investigate the continuity of reading passages of Korean high school English textbooks with the 2015 Revised National Curriculum using CohMetrix, a software that analyzes English texts in a range of linguistic features. Twentyone English textbooks were analyzed: 11 High School English, five High School English I,…
Descriptors: High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Phoophuangpairoj, Rong; Pipattarasakul, Piyarat – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2022
During the pandemic of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), English as a foreign language (EFL) students have to study and submit their assignments and quizzes through online systems using electronic files instead of hardcopies. This has created an opportunity for teachers to use computer tools to conduct preliminary assessment of the students'…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Evaluation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Alhusban, Hamdallah A.; Torki, Saad – TESOL International Journal, 2021
This paper presents a novel methodology to determine textbook readability. The method mainly relies on students' lexical coverage to determine the readability level of textbooks, taking into consideration that readability depends primarily on vocabulary knowledge and that it is a function of lexical coverage in teaching English as a Foreign…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Readability, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Neofytou, Chrystalla; Hadzilacos, Thanasis – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2018
Viewing its use in language teaching mainly as a text corpus, this article examines the problem of the assessment of suitability of this material for use in the Greek language course in Cyprus schooling. The suitability of texts for use in language teaching is defined by four parameters, which are described in detail in this article: text…
Descriptors: Greek, Usability, Computational Linguistics, Foreign Countries
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Granados, Adrián; Lorenzo-Espejo, Antonio; Lorenzo, Francisco – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
However influential the interdependence hypothesis has become in bilingual research, it still lacks full empirical support. This longitudinal study explores the parallels in the biliteracy development (L1 Spanish and L2 English) of 20 students in a European immersion programme (i.e. CLIL) over a two-year period. A bilingual learner corpus of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Oyzon, Voltaire Q.; Corrales, Juven B.; Estardo, Wilfredo M., Jr. – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2015
In 2012 the Leyte Normal University developed a computer software--modelled after the Spache Readability Formula (1953) made for English--made to help rank texts that can is used by teachers or research groups on selecting appropriate reading materials to support the DepEd's MTB-MLE program in Region VIII, in the Philippines. However,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Readability, Readability Formulas, Computer Software
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Ebadi, Saman; Saeedian, Abdulbaset – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2016
Derived from Vygotsky's works, dynamic assessment (DA) enables learners to move beyond their current level of functioning through offering needs-sensitized mediation. This study aimed at exploring the learners' development in novel and increasingly more challenging situations called transcendence (TR) in an L2 context focusing on reading…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Computer Assisted Testing, Language Tests
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Topping, Keith J. – Reading Psychology, 2015
Are the books preferred and most enjoyed by children harder than other books they read? Are non-fiction books read and understood at the same level of difficulty as fiction books? The Accelerated Reader software offers computerized comprehension quizzes of real books individually chosen by children, giving children (and teachers, librarians, and…
Descriptors: Fiction, Nonfiction, Reading Material Selection, Childrens Literature
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Solnyshkina, Marina I.; Harkova, Elena V.; Kiselnikov, Aleksander S. – English Language Teaching, 2014
The article summarizes the results of the comparative study of Reading comprehension texts used in B2 level tests: Unified (Russia) State Exam in English (EGE) and Cambridge First Certificate in English (FCE). The research conducted was mainly focused on six parameters measured with the Coh-Metrix, a computational tool producing indices of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Ozasa, Toshiaki; Weir, George R. S.; Fukui, Masayasu – Themes in Science and Technology Education, 2010
We have been engaged in developing a readability index and its application software attuned for Japanese EFL learners. The index program, Ozasa-Fukui Year Level Program, Ver. 1.0, was used in developing the readability metric Ozasa-Fukui Year Level Index but tended to assume a high level of computer knowledge in its users. As a result, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Computer Software, Readability
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Gu, Xiaoqing; Ding, Rui; Fu, Shirong – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2011
Senior citizens are comparatively vulnerable in accessing learning opportunities offered on the Internet due to usability problems in current web design. In an effort to build a senior-friendly learning web as a part of the Life-long Learning Network in Shanghai, usability studies of two websites currently available to Shanghai senior citizens…
Descriptors: Usability, Older Adults, Lifelong Learning, Accessibility (for Disabled)
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Kasule, Daniel – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2011
This paper reports activities (as part of a university course in language teacher education on teaching reading) in which primary school student teachers (all ESL in-service teacher trainees) explored their own skills of determining textbook readability using an online software tool and a cloze test completed by two hundred and seventy-eight Grade…
Descriptors: Readability, Textbooks, Textbook Content, English (Second Language)