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A New Dataset and Method for Automatically Grading ESOL Texts
2011
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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In particular, we use rank preference learning to explicitly model the grade relationships between scripts. ...
Finally, using a set of 'outlier' texts, we test the validity of our model and identify cases where the model's scores diverge from that of a human examiner. ...
Acknowledgements We would like to thank Cambridge ESOL, a division of Cambridge Assessment, for permission to use and distribute the examination scripts. ...
dblp:conf/acl/YannakoudakisBM11
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The English Profile Programme – the first three years
2010
English Profile Journal
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A major objective of English Profile is to analyse learner language to throw more light on what learners of English can and can't do at different CEFR levels, and to assess how well they perform using ...
Large samples of writing and speech are required for the Programme, with the Cambridge Learner Corpus providing data for the initial phase. ...
The model has been adopted by Cambridge ESOL as the basis for the validation of Cambridge ESOL examinations (Shaw & Weir, 2007; Khalifa & Weir, 2009 ) which have provided significant corpus data being ...
doi:10.1017/s2041536210000061
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Page 533 of Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts: LLBA Vol. 26, Issue 2
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1992
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts: LLBA
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The model is said to produce more coherent language courses. 6 Figures, 16 Refer- ences. Adapted from the source document. ...
by a sociolo- gist in a text in English that the students had read before the test. ...
The Common European Framework
2006
ELT Journal
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coding model • appear meaningful. ...
into the use of word-processed text on rater behaviour (as opposed to handwritten text). ...
doi:10.1093/elt/cci105
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Hitting the Mark: Learner's Perceptions of Course Design in a Foundation ESOL Program
1999
The TESL Canada Journal
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Overall, learners rated the language-based course more highly in the first semester and the two content courses more highly in the second. ...
Learners rated different aspects of their development in language, skills, and strategies-as well as motivational factors-over two semesters. ...
taught in Italy, Finland, Singapore, Portugal, Eire, and the UK. ...
doi:10.18806/tesl.v17i1.882
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UCLA Community College Review: Academic Literacy for English Language Learners
2004
Community College Review
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In one, an adjunct model, students in an intensive preparatory program take introductory courses such as psychology, geography, and computer science along with intensive ESOL courses, and "assignments ...
Students benefit by reading authentic academic texts and interacting with native-English speakers in classes and lectures while they are supported by the ESOL staff. ...
doi:10.1177/009155210403200204
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A sociocultural perspective on ESOL teachers' linguistic knowledge for teaching
2009
Linguistics and Education
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Teachers' biographies, including their experiences as language learners, shape their knowledge base for teaching English to speakers of other languages (ESOL). ...
Cases studies of two early career ESOL teachers with similar language learner biographies, that of first language (L1) Center English speakers with limited second language (L2) learning experienee, provided ...
the form of symbolic and graphic models" (Karapov, 2003 as quoted in Lantolf & Johnson, 2007, p. 880) . ...
doi:10.1016/j.linged.2008.11.001
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Does technical assessment matter? Functionality and usability testing of websites for ESL/EFL autonomous learners
2020
Research in Learning Technology
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The analysis is based on functionality and usability aspects through the use of a specifically designed checklist, created and preliminarily implemented in the early development phase of this study. ...
In the context of the LinguApp research project developed at the University of Córdoba (Spain),1 we aim to evaluate the technical quality of a group of English teaching websites for self-directed learning ...
Design
BBC
BRITISH
COUNCIL
CAMBRIDGE
ESOL COURSES
2.4.1. Interface design is coherent in all website pages
2.4.2. Interface design is clear and clean
2.4.3. ...
doi:10.25304/rlt.v28.2353
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Automatic learner summary assessment for reading comprehension
2019
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North
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Automating the assessment of learner summaries provides a useful tool for assessing learner reading comprehension. ...
We evaluate our models on two datasets we created and show that our models outperform traditional approaches that rely on exact word match on this task. ...
We also thank Cambridge Assessment for their assistance in the collection of the real learner data. We are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback. ...
doi:10.18653/v1/n19-1261
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Developing Idiomatic Competence in the ESOL Classroom: A Pragmatic Account
2015
TESOL Journal
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for speakers of other languages (ESOL). ...
to be made compatible with and supportive of the way English language learners learn best. ...
In the reverse version of this task, students read four texts and decide from which text the given idiom was extracted. ...
doi:10.1002/tesj.230
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Impact of Teaching Cohesive Devices to Iranian EFL learners: Case of IELTS writing task 2 examination
2021
JL3T (Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Language Teaching)
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The notion of "textuality" encouraged Halliday and Hasan in 1976 to present their model of discourse analysis through raising questions about whether "cohesion" was a semantic concept or a structural relation ...
Cohesion was like the glue that unified the meaning within a text through binding the textual elements. Tackling relations of meaning and references in a text was often related to cohesion. ...
A text is a passage of discourse which is coherent in these two regards: it is coherent concerning the context of the situation, and therefore consistent in the register, and it is coherent concerning ...
doi:10.32505/jl3t.v6i2.2050
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How are spoken skills assessed in proficiency tests of general English as a Foreign Language? A preliminary survey
2013
International Journal of English Studies (IJES)
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This paper examines some of the best known proficiency tests in English, with particular focus on the oral component. ...
in the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), and the kinds of tasks and marking systems used for assessment. ...
and their task consists in answering coherently. ...
doi:10.6018/ijes.13.2.185901
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Transformational Opportunities: Language and Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners in the Common Core Era in the United States
2014
TESOL Journal
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era, a model that can inform both language arts and ESOL teachers as they move forward with curricular reform in their schools and districts. ...
languages (ESOL) in the United States. ...
doi:10.1002/tesj.133
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Criteria and Scale for Argumentation
2018
Theory and Practice in Language Studies
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It is added to the updated framework in this paper to keep up with advancements in the field. ...
Writer's voice is not emphasized in the existing criteria but often discussed in recent publications on argumentation. ...
In this sense, it is "not texts but rather people that cohere when understanding texts" (Lorenz, 1999, p. 2) . ...
doi:10.17507/tpls.0806.02
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Teacher- learner & learner-learner discourses carry messages that females are marginal in relation to male peers. ...
(Dept Language Education U British Columbia, Vancouver V6T 1E5), Teaching Content Knowledge and ESOL in Multicultural Classrooms, TESOL Journal, 1992-1993, 2, 2, winter, 8-12. 1 Presented is a model systematically ...
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