In the present paper we compare the effectiveness of two alternative meaning access facilitators in a monolingual learner’s dictionary: a Menu system, placed at the top of a monolingual entry; and a Shortcuts system, where the cues are distributed throughout the entry. We test the two entry formats on 90 Polish learners of English at two CEFR levels, A2 and B1. The task which triggers dictionar...

The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) lays strong emphasis on task-based language teaching (TBLT). However, this approach constitutes a challenge for many foreign language teachers, not so much because they are not familiar with the approach or its benefits, but because of the requirements and practical conditions to be met. Most national curricula are clear about the importance of ...

For the last two decades, Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) has been instrumental in globalisation language policy not only across Europe but also around world. The CEFR competency profiles, expressed action-oriented statements, provide a clear articulation proficiency levels. comprehensive scales competence have created an essential instrument for professionals and learners: shared...

The presence of several Innovative Pedagogy principles in Common European References (CEFR) particularly through the inclusion Differentiation Strategies and Formative Assessment has encouraged a creative innovative teaching learning environment among Malaysian English teachers pupils. There is lack priority towards an effective practice CEFR lesson due to focus on merely achieving standards. r...

The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, which will be briefly referred to as CEFR in this article, is accepted a reference by academics working the Council Europe Committee on Languages. It sets criteria teaching any language foreign language. aims assess and evaluate acquisition, teaching, levels world within certain criteria. In an attempt determine prevalence literacy Langu...

The goal of this research was to determine the English language writing skills International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) graduating undergraduates based on two linguistic levels; IIUM Proficiency Test (EPT) and Common European Framework Reference for Languages (CEFR), descriptors: IIUM’s EPT descriptor, CEFR’s ‘General range’ descriptor (Council Europe, 2001, p 110). results show that ma...

In qualitative projects on ICALL (Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning), research and development always go hand in hand: development both depends upon the research results and dictates the research agenda. Likewise, in the development of the Swedish ICALL platform Lärka, the practical issues of development have dictated its research agenda. With NLP approaches, sooner or later, the ...

This paper reports on approaches for automatically predicting a learner’s language proficiency in Estonian according to the European CEFR scale. We used the morphological and POS tag information extracted from the texts written by learners. We compared classification and regression modeling for this task. Our models achieve a classification accuracy of 79% and a correlation of 0.85 when modeled...