As e-Learning environments evolve, learners have become increasingly demanding on personalised learning which allows them to build their own knowledge pathway. This significant change in learning requirements imposes a new learning paradigm which ensures one-to-one learning with flexible mode of content configuration, and adaptive delivery and assessment. Although in the past years, Learning Ma...

This study investigated motivational strategies and the assessment of learners‟ motivation during serious game play. Identifying and intelligently assessing the effects that these strategies may have on learners are particularly relevance for educational computer-based systems. We proposed, therefore, the use of physiological sensors, namely heart rate, skin conductance, and electroencephalogra...

This paper examines variations of Korean segments produced by Japanese learners of Korean. For corpus-based statistical analysis, we have used Korean read speech corpus produced by Japanese learners. Contrastive analysis of the target language and the source language is performed to provide information for interpreting the results of corpus analysis. Segmental variations are analyzed by alignin...

This paper explores the role of corrective feedback in communicative language classrooms. Seven empirical studies investigating the effectiveness of corrective feedback are examined to determine if corrective feedback can lead to substantial changes in learners’ interlanguage systems over the long term and to find out what factors are necessary for effective feedback. The review of literature r...

In this paper, we investigate automatic language proficiency assessment from learners’ utterances generated through shadowing and reading aloud. By increasing the degrees of difficulty of learners’ tasks for each practice, we examine how the automatic scores, the conventional GOP and proposed F-GOP, change according to the cognitive loads posed on learners. We also investigate the effect and si...

There is a considerable gap in English reading achievement between English-language learners and native speakers in the United States. Differentiation of whether English language learners' struggles are symptomatic of reading disability or related to second language acquisition is often challenging. These issues highlight the need for increased insight into reading development and disability in...

Li Yang, Kansas State University This study explored the effectiveness of a self-access website as a tool to teach expressions of gratitude to learners of Mandarin Chinese. The web-based instruction included explicit instruction on how to express gratitude appropriately in Mandarin and various consciousness-raising exercises/activities. Two groups of learners who differed in their proficiency i...

In 2012 January, as part of the ongoing process of curriculum revision which began in 1994, the South African Depart of Education (DoE) introduced the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS). The CAPS brought Euclidean geometry with its formal proof back into the compulsory mathematics curriculum. It also implied that all learners needed to perform at level 4 (Deduction: with formal p...

This study was aimed at investigating the effect of collaborative assessment, as compared to that of static assessment, on the EFL learners’ reading comprehension, metacognitive strategies, and critical thinking. In this mixed-methods research design study, 62 intermediate EFL learners out of a population of 79 English language learners, were randomly selected and divided into two groups of exp...