In introductory courses on programming it is important to discuss algorithms at the syntactic level in terms of program code as well as at the semantic level in terms of affected data structures. While single visualizations for examples during a lecture are easy to create for a teacher, students have to create visualizations of their exercises on their own, which is time consuming and may lead ...

Chinese automated essay scoring (CAES) is a very important tool for many educational researches. However, none of the methods for retrieving features in English essays is applicable to Chinese writings because Chinese grammar parsers cannot produce reliable and useful syntactic features. CAES systems must explore other distinct features in Chinese writing. This paper proposes a method for retri...

Description of Assessment The Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language (CASL) is a norm-referenced oral language assessment. It provides a thorough evaluation regarding the processes of comprehension, expression, and retrieval in four language categories: (1) lexical/semantic skills, (2) syntactic knowledge, (3) supralinguistic knowledge, and (4) pragmatic abilities through use of fifteen su...

Within this paper, we present an approach to evaluate the skillfulness of robot behaviour and the progress made by robots when learning new and adapting existing skills. The principle measure that we use is the amount of instruction (e.g., by means of examples) that the robot needs to execute some task with a certain level of performance. Since we require only a simple indication of performance...

This paper describes the design and acquisition of a German multimodal corpus for the development and evaluation of computational models for (grounded) language acquisition and algorithms enabling corresponding capabilities in robots. The corpus contains parallel data from multiple speakers/actors, including speech, visual data from different perspectives and body posture data. The corpus is de...

Within this paper, we present an approach to evaluate the skillfulness of robot behaviour and the progress made by robots when learning new and adapting existing skills. The principle measure that we use is the amount of instruction (e.g., by means of examples) that the robot needs to execute some task with a certain level of performance. Since we require only a simple indication of performance...

Integrated tasks are increasing in popularity, either replacing or complementing writing-only independent writing assessments. This shift has generated many research interests to investigate the underlying construct and features of integrated (IW) performances. However, due complexity IW construct, there conflicting findings about whether extent which various language skills text correlate scor...

Syntactic complexity has long been taken as a significant factor in determining writing quality by EFL learners. And researchers recent years have made lot of efforts to devise and verify wide range factors or indicators for the purpose measuring syntactic predicting quality. The present study discussed bases itself on self-built learner corpus with data collected over three years, aim applicab...

The present study aimed to explore learners’ perceptions while using Google Translate (GT) during online English-Writing lessons and evaluate its effectiveness on English writing skills. Online questionnaires individual interviews were used collect self-reported opinions from 24 Vietnamese students. Learner samples the 12-week session also collected in order identify possible improvements writi...

This article describes the communication skills programme of the International Medical University, which adopts an integrated medical curriculum. The programme, implemented in February 2005, is based on a systematic framework aimed at teaching students basic interpersonal communication skills progressively and continuously throughout the pre-clinical phase.