We present the COPLE2 corpus, a learner corpus of Portuguese that includes written and spoken texts produced by learners of Portuguese as a second or foreign language. The corpus includes at the moment a total of 182,474 tokens and 978 texts, classified according to the CEFR scales. The original handwritten productions are transcribed in TEI compliant XML format and keep record of all the origi...

The Malaysian Education Blueprint (MEB) 2015-2025 has set in motion efforts from all stages of education to align programs, courses, and syllabuses the Common European Framework Reference (CEFR) benchmark. This exercise brought on major revamps aspects English language nation. study will present such an undertaking a public university Malaysia detail how criteria for oral group test Occupationa...

Abstract We studied German students’ academic writing skills in English at a Dutch university. Their performances are typical examples of as lingua franca (ELF) these students non-native users evaluated by subject lecturers who well. Our database is corpus written answers to an open examination question the context EMI (English Medium Instruction) bachelor psychology. aimed detect those charact...

This study presents SMILLE, a system that draws on the Noticing Hypothesis and on input enhancements, addressing the lack of salience of grammatical information in online documents chosen by a given user. By means of input enhancements, the system can draw the user’s attention to grammar, which could possibly lead to a higher intake per input ratio for metalinguistic information. The system rec...

One of the most essential elements learning English is ability to read fluently. Mastering reading skills among ESL (English as a Second Language) learners important in this global environment it helps widen their vocabulary acquisition and gradually them enhance other language skills. Although there large volume published studies describing implementation CEFR (Common European Framework Refere...

Textbooks play a vital role as the teaching and learning resources for both English Second Language (ESL) educators learners. A number of studies have been conducted to evaluate Malaysian EL textbooks. However, focused on vocabulary in CEFR primary school textbooks are still limited. Therefore, this research intends address identified gaps through evaluating presentation Get Smart Plus 4, textb...

This paper addresses the task of readability assessment for the texts aimed at second language (L2) learners. One of the major challenges in this task is the lack of significantly sized level-annotated data. For the present work, we collected a dataset of CEFR-graded texts tailored for learners of English as an L2 and investigated text readability assessment for both native and L2 learners. We ...