Conclusion Context: A sketch of our research perspective Analyzing learner language I Intelligent Tutoring System TAGARELA for Portuguese (Amaral & Meurers 2008, 2009, 2011; Amaral et al. 2011) I Automatic analysis of learner language (Meurers 2009) I Linguistic analysis of NOCE corpus of English written by Spanish learners (Dı́az-Negrillo, Meurers, Valera & Wunsch 2010) I Word order errors (Met...

The high potential for synergy between Knowledge Management (KM) and eLearning seems obvious given the many interrelations and dependencies of these two fields. However, the relationship has not yet been fully understood and harnessed. This workshop therefore aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners, who are interested in combining findings from both fields. On the one hand learn...

Research on inspectable learner models involves the study of representational aspects of the profile that systems maintain about learners. When learners and teachers interact with inspectable learner models several questions arise, such as: What kind of representation is most appropriate for learners and teachers?; How will students and teachers react to different representations?; How should l...

This article discusses the status of existing English language proficiency (ELP) tests, and compares the content coverage and psychometric characteristics of ELP assessments that existed prior to the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) with those developed after NCLB Title III guidelines were introduced. The article argues that the newly developed ELP assessments (post-NCLB) e...

In this paper, we have described Kit-Build method as an approach to realize automatic assessment of a concept map. In Kit-Build method, an ideal concept map (goal map) is prepared by an expert of a target domain at first, and parts are generated by decomposing the goal map. The parts are provided to a learner, and then the learner rebuilds a concept map (learner map) by connecting the parts. It...

Researchers working with learner corpora promise quantitative results that would be of greater practical value in areas such as CALL than those from small-scale and qualitative studies. However, learner corpus research has not yet had an impact on practices in teaching and assessment. Significant methodological issues need to be examined if results from learner corpus research are going to prov...

Many teachers still use in-class multiple choice exams in their classes, the primary goal of which is to see how much the students have already learned. The assessment strategies we will examine in this paper change the focus from assessing whether students have learned anything to creating assessments which double as learning experiences themselves. Assessments do not have to merely measure wh...

Contextualized, meaning-based interaction in the foreign language is widely recognized as crucial for second language acquisition. Correspondingly, current exercises in foreign language teaching generally require students to manipulate both form and meaning. For Intelligent Language Tutoring Systems to support such activities, they thus must be able to evaluate the appropriateness of the meanin...

Open learner models (OLM) is an adaptive learning system that externalise the learner model contents to the user. OLMs assist learners in tracking their knowledge, and promote independent learning by offering information about their knowledge that the learner would not usually see (e.g. a breakdown of concept understanding or descriptions of misconceptions held) which may allow learners to iden...