Topic modelling applied to a second language: A language adaptation and tool evaluation study

Introduction ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Skeppstedt ◽  
Magnus Ahltorp ◽  
Kostiantyn Kucher ◽  
Andreas Kerren ◽  
Rafal Rzepka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Evaluation Study ◽  
Topic Modelling ◽  
Tool Evaluation

Multiple Adherence Tool Evaluation Study (MATES)

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
pp. 734-740 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Witry ◽  
William R. Doucette ◽  
Yiran Zhang ◽  
Karen B. Farris
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Study ◽  
Tool Evaluation

scholarly journals Evaluating English as a Second Language: A Naturalistic Model

1986 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail V. Barrington
Keyword(s):  
Program Evaluation ◽  
Second Language ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Evaluation Study ◽  
Board Of Education ◽  
External Evaluation ◽  
Language Program ◽  
Student Profile ◽  
Political Upheaval ◽  
One Year

The article describes a program evaluation study of a special English as a Second Language program conducted by the Calgary Board of Education entitled CORE-ESL. This program was developed to meet the needs of a group of 18 to 21 year olds with a severe gap in their schooling due to political upheaval and war. The program was funded for a one-year period by a local foundation which requested that an external evaluation be conducted. The study was designed as a naturalistic model involving five stages of data collection and participant involvement. These five stages are described and study recommendations and outcomes are outlined. A composite student profile, developed in the study, is appended to the article.

Distinctiveness and Assimilation in Vowel Perception in a Second Language

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (12) ◽  
pp. 4534-4543
Author(s):  
Wei Hu ◽  
Sha Tao ◽  
Mingshuang Li ◽  
Chang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Vowel Identification ◽  
Vowel Perception ◽  
Perceptual Distance ◽  
Vowel Space ◽  
English Vowels ◽  
Chinese Counterpart ◽  
Vowel Categories

Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate how the distinctive establishment of 2nd language (L2) vowel categories (e.g., how distinctively an L2 vowel is established from nearby L2 vowels and from the native language counterpart in the 1st formant [F1] × 2nd formant [F2] vowel space) affected L2 vowel perception. Method Identification of 12 natural English monophthongs, and categorization and rating of synthetic English vowels /i/ and /ɪ/ in the F1 × F2 space were measured for Chinese-native (CN) and English-native (EN) listeners. CN listeners were also examined with categorization and rating of Chinese vowels in the F1 × F2 space. Results As expected, EN listeners significantly outperformed CN listeners in English vowel identification. Whereas EN listeners showed distinctive establishment of 2 English vowels, CN listeners had multiple patterns of L2 vowel establishment: both, 1, or neither established. Moreover, CN listeners' English vowel perception was significantly related to the perceptual distance between the English vowel and its Chinese counterpart, and the perceptual distance between the adjacent English vowels. Conclusions L2 vowel perception relied on listeners' capacity to distinctively establish L2 vowel categories that were distant from the nearby L2 vowels.

Second Language Speech Fluency

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Parvaneh Tavakoli ◽  
Clare Wright
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Speech Fluency

Reading in a Second Language

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Grabe
Keyword(s):  
Second Language
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