Supporting Postsecondary English Language Learners’ Writing Proficiency Using Technological Tools

Modeling User Language Proficiency In A Writing Tutor For Deaf Learners Of English

In this paper we discuss a proposed user knowledge modeling architecture for the ICICLE system, a language tutoring application for deaf learners of written English. The model will represent the language proficiency of the user and is designed to be referenced during both writing analysis and feedback production. We motivate our model design by citing relevant research on second language and co...

Predictors and Outcomes of Early vs. Later English Language Proficiency Among English Language Learners.

The development of English language learners (ELLs) was explored from kindergarten through eighth grade within a nationally representative sample of first-time kindergartners (N = 19,890). Growth curve analyses indicated that, compared to native English speakers, ELLs were rated by teachers more favorably on approaches to learning, self control, and externalizing behaviors in kindergarten and g...

Negative Language Transfer Reflected in ESL Learners’ English Writing

Using deep neural networks to improve proficiency assessment for children English language learners

We investigated the use of context-dependent deep neural network hidden Markov models, or CD-DNN-HMMs, to improve speech recognition performance for a better assessment of children English language learners (ELLs). The ELL data used in the present study was obtained from a large language assessment project administered in schools in a U.S. state. Our DNN-based speech recognition system, built u...

the effect analysis of proficiency on language - switching in iranian efl learners writing

abstract in a protocol analysis of second language writing from 20 adult english as a foreign language (efl) iranian students, this research observed how language-switching (l-s), i.e., first language use in l2 writing, was affected by l2 proficiency. switching interactively between first (l1) and second (l2) languages has been recognized as one of the salient characteristics of l2 writing....