Individualization of Foreign Language Teaching through Adaptive eLearning

Abstract

Lifelong learning has become an essential part of each profession. For this reason, personalized and adaptive learning has been drawing attention of professionals in the field of formal as well as informal education in the last few years. The effort has been made to design adaptive study supports regarding students' requirements, abilities and current knowledge. In the Czech Republic, particularly at the University of Ostrava, a team of educators, didactics professionals and IT professionals has been applying their mind to personalized learning in the electronic environment. They have been developing a suitable learning environment to fit students' learning styles. The paper describes a general model and a theory of adaptive eLearning from the perspective of the University of Ostrava professionals. It also demonstrates hard facts of the research in the field of language learning. This paper, Individualization of foreign language teaching through adaptive eLearning, is an extended version of the paper published in the ICWL 2015 workshop proceedings.

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“…Identified factors of innovation in the teaching of language determine the level of their acceptance by the subjects of the educational process. This confirms the idea of adherence to the basic principles in the case of integration of innovations (Kostolanyova & Nedbalova, 2017).…”

“…A key feature of the application of language immersion technologies according to the research of Vyselko (2012), submitted in "Ways to introduce foreign language immersion in learning English for professional purposes", is aimed at: 1) improving the level of foreign language proficiency; it provides the use of this learning method only when the level of foreign language proficiency of applicants is not below average; 2) introduction of this learning method to applicants (students) of the last courses of training, forasmuch as then the training is based on the content that is preceded by the language course; 3) application of this learning technology for learning a foreign language by both students of specialized language disciplines and students of non-language disciplines. Kostolanyova and Nedbalova (2017), based on the results of the implementation of individualization and personification technologies in the educational process, have come to the conclusion that the educational process needs to be set up in the context of using various information and communication technologies. Moreover, individualization as a learning technology, according to investigations of scholars, is a method of differentiation of learning, where there must be constant progress in learning.…”

“…Technological factors determine to some extent the level of efficiency. "The education process can be personalized through ICT" (Kostolanyova & Nedbalova, 2017).…”

[Retracted] Construction of a Basic Japanese Teaching Resource Base Based on a Deep Neural Network under a Big Data Environment

“…In recent years, universities have actively improved and reformed information teaching, exploring the establishment of more efficient and convenient teaching forms that keep pace with the times and promoting the sharing of high-quality instructional resources. The informatization process of education has achieved fruitful results and improved the efficiency of teaching and management [ 1 ]. However, in the process of educational informatization, some problems have also appeared.…”

COMALAT: mobile and adaptive language learning / COMALAT: aprendizaje de idiomas adaptativo y móvil

“…Ongoing learning has become an essential part of professional competences. Consequently, efforts have been made to design adaptive study supports to respond to students' current needs, skills and knowledge (Kostolanyova & Nedbalova, 2017).…”