20 Years of EUROCALL: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future

Bradley, Linda; Thouësny, Sylvie

doi:10.14705/rpnet.2013.9781908416131

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Question Generation for Language Learning: From ensuring texts are read to supporting learning

Chinkina

Meurers

2017

Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

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In Foreign Language Teaching and Learning (FLTL), questions are systematically used to assess the learner's understanding of a text. Computational linguistic (CL) approaches have been developed to generate such questions automatically given a text (e.g., Heilman, 2011). In this paper, we want to broaden the perspective on the different functions questions can play in FLTL and discuss how automatic question generation can support the different uses.Complementing the focus on meaning and comprehension, we want to highlight the fact that questions can also be used to make learners notice form aspects of the linguistic system and their interpretation. Automatically generating questions that target linguistic forms and grammatical categories in a text in essence supports incidental focus-on-form (Loewen, 2005) in a meaning-focused reading task. We discuss two types of questions serving this purpose, how they can be generated automatically; and we report on a crowdsourcing evaluation comparing automatically generated to manually written questions targeting particle verbs, a challenging linguistic form for learners of English.

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Question Generation for Language Learning: From ensuring texts are read to supporting learning

Chinkina

Meurers

2017

Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

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Mobile Assisted Language Learning in Distance and Blended Education

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Larreta-Azelain

Pareja-Lora

2015

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Desde la publicación, en 2008, del primer monográfico sobre aprendizaje de lenguas mediante tecnología móvil (en inglés conocido con el acrónimo MALL: Mobile Assisted Language Learning), bajo la coordinación de Shield y KukulskaHulme en la prestigiosa revista ReCALL (Shield y Kukulska-Hulme, 2008), son muchos los cambios que afectan a la forma de aprender lenguas extranjeras a través de dispositivos móviles como los smartphones o las tabletas.El avance de la tecnología, el abaratamiento de las tarifas de datos a nivel mundial, la presencia de redes inalámbricas en la mayoría de lugares de paso, transportes y edificios públicos, así como la amplísima difusión de este tipo de dispositivos móviles (por ejemplo, véase la gráfica incluida en la figura 1), han sido factores determinantes para la progresiva utilización de los mismos en actividades dedicadas al aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras. Cabe destacar asimismo el ascenso vertiginoso que han experimentado las suscripciones a anchos de banda para dispositivos móviles en los últimos años.

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20 Years of EUROCALL: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future

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Question Generation for Language Learning: From ensuring texts are read to supporting learning

Question Generation for Language Learning: From ensuring texts are read to supporting learning

Mobile Assisted Language Learning in Distance and Blended Education

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