The sway of the pendulum in language pedagogy towards conscious learning processes marks the paramount role of metalinguistic awareness. The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to compare the impact of teacher-oriented vs. learner-generated metalinguistic awareness activities on Iranian TEFL students’ writing accuracy. Sixty participants in three intact classes were randomly assigned a...

A learner corpus is a useful resource for developing automatic assessment techniques for implementation in a computer-assisted language learning system. However, presently, learner corpora are only helpful in terms of evaluating the accuracy of learner output (speaking and writing). Therefore, the present study proposes a learner corpus annotated with evaluation results regarding the accuracy a...

In this paper, we present an adaptive assessment framework as part of the diagnostic module in the Adaptive Educational Hypermedia System INSPIRE-INtelligent System for Personalized Instruction in a Remote Environment. The main goal of the assessment procedure is to provide assessment of learner’s knowledge level and to give the learner a chance to keep track of his/her learning progress. Adapt...

In this paper, we present our proposal of a learner model for the personalization of learning in distance and on line learning environments. The current researches on semantic referential with ontologies and the semantic web allow us to believe in the importance of the integration of semantic in actor modeling. We propose a learner model that is competency oriented and that integrates the learn...

With the introduction of Tomorrow's Doctors in 1993, medical education began the transition from a time- and process-based system to a competency-based training framework. Implementing competency-based training in postgraduate medical education poses many challenges but ultimately requires a demonstration that the learner is truly competent to progress in training or to the next phase of a prof...

The MERLIN corpus is a written learner corpus for Czech, German, and Italian that has been designed to illustrate the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) with authentic learner data. The corpus contains 2,290 learner texts produced in standardized language certifications covering CEFR levels A1–C1. The MERLIN annotation scheme includes a wide range of language characteri...

Open or inspectable learner models have been used to support reflection, knowledge awareness, learner model accuracy, and negotiated assessment. Current systems employ many different mechanisms to present and to support human interaction with the learner model. This paper explores the interactions between learners and inspectable learner models using various guidance mechanisms (i.e. following ...