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...

This study assesses the handwriting of isolated cursive letters in five-year-old children and effect a modification visual feedback. Sixty-four copied twelve with an inking pen non-inking pen. Reducing feedback decreased mean number penlifts, increased velocity fluency. However, it size (trajectory length) reduced their quality. We suggest that processing emerging trace may interrupt fluency mo...

This study was motivated by Truscott’s (1996, 2004) scarcely empirically tested claims that written corrective feedback (WCF) processing hinders fluency in subsequent rewriting owing to learners’ purposeful avoidance of making mistakes composing shorter texts at a higher speed. It examined the writing produced eighteen 10-11-year-old L2 English children digital environment. They were divided in...

Although graphomotor differences and variability of performance have been observed in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), no study has investigated whether this variability manifests in the kinematic graphomotor domain in adults with ADHD. Fourteen ADHD and 20 control participants wrote a novel grapheme and common word on a digitizing tablet 30 times each, with ADHD p...

BACKGROUND Reliability of Reading and Writing Assessment Instruments. AIM To investigate the reliability of two scales created to evaluate both reading and writing of children with ages between 8:0 and 11:11 years. METHOD Two scales were created: a reading scale, composed of 12 testing items organized into four competency fields (letter knowledge and phonographemic relation, decoding of iso...

In this study of third grade school children, we investigated the association between writing process measures recorded with key stroke logging and the final written product. Moreover, we examined the cognitive predictors of writing process and product measures. Analyses of key strokes showed that while most children spontaneously made local online revisions while writing, few revised previousl...