the curriculum development for arabic language skills needs to needs analysis (na) and situation analysis (sa). na examines the linguistic needs and sa examines non-linguistic factors such as societal factors, project factor, institutional factors, teacher factors, learner factors. this work examines the teachers and learners' perceptions as part of the teacher factors and learner factors,...

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Objectives: Self-assessment, as one type of alternative assessment, with the increased attention to learner-centered curricula, needs analysis, and learner autonomy has gained popularity in recent years. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of self-assessment on Javanroodian Foreign Language (Kordestan) Learners’ Oral Performance ability. Methods: The assessment program ...

We present a computational model of language learning via a sequence of interactions between a teacher and a learner. Experiments learning limited sublanguages of 10 natural languages show that the learner achieves a high level of performance after a reasonable number of interactions, the teacher can produce meaning-preserving corrections of the learner’s utterances, and the learner can detect ...