Interactional Feedback in Naturalistic Interaction between L2 English Learners

Automated Pronunciation Scoring for L2 English Learners

1. Introduction This study aims at developing an automated pronunciation scoring method for second language learners of English (Hereafter, L2 learners) using both confidence scoring and classifiers. The pronunciation errors have been detected using the confidence measure from speech recognition [Franco et al. However, the accuracy of the assessment based on the confidence scores is not always ...

: examining l2 teachers’ corrective feedback types in relation to learners’ uptake, proficiency levels, and context types

abstract this study investigates the teachers’ correction of students’ spoken errors of linguistic forms in efl classes, aiming at (a) examining the relationship between the learners’ proficiency level and the provision of corrective feedback types, (b) exploring the extent to which teachers’ use of different corrective feedback types is related to the immediate types of context in which err...

Longitudinal L2 Development of the English Article in Individual Learners

We investigate the accuracy development of the English article by learners of English as a second language. The study focuses on individual learners, tracking their learning trajectories through their writings in the EF-Cambridge Open Language Database (EFCAMDAT), an open access learner corpus. We draw from 17,859 writings by 1,280 learners and ask whether article accuracy in individual learner...

Automatic Detection Of Language Levels in L2 English Learners

Acquiring English dative verbs: proficiency effects in German L2 learners

This paper investigates the influence of probabilistic information in the second language on the processing of English dative alternation constructions in German learners of English. We present two eye-tracking studies (visual world and reading) with evidence that the probabilistic patterns of the target language influence L2 processing when the initial preference is violated, and indications t...