In designing intelligent web based educational systems different student needs and preferences should be taken into consideration. Personalization of a system usually results in an increase in its effectiveness, which can be measured by the degree to which learning outcomes are achieved. However, taking into account the individual requirements of each learner and adjusting the system to their n...

ICALL systems that provide L2 learners with feedback on the grammatical quality of the sentences they are writing, should aim at a high level of relevance and acuracy, and be tunable to the level of grammatical knowledge and the learning strategy of the student. We present and demonstrate the prototype of a writing support system whose feedback is computed by a natural-language sentence generat...

This article describes an initiative launched at a Canadian bilingual university in order to encourage L2 French and English learners take ‘linguistic risks’: authentic, autonomous communicative acts where are pushed out of their linguistic comfort zone. The was operationalized through the development Linguistic Risk-Taking Passport, which contains 74 risks that students can across campus every...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect learner–learner and learner–facilitator interactions on learner satisfaction their substitutability. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative survey research focusing 130 students was used collect data. Stratified sampling preferred for study, with a Likert type instrument being administered online. Findings Learner–learner mediate e...

Learner corpora are receiving special attention as an invaluable source of educational feedback and are expected to improve teaching materials and methodology. However, they include various types of incorrect sentences. Error type classification is an important task in learner corpora which enables clarifying for learners why a certain sentence is classified as incorrect in order to help learne...