Towards Adaptive CALL:
Natural Language Processing for Diagnostic Language Assessment
Friday, September 21 and Saturday, September 22, 2007
Keynote Speaker:
University of Maryland
For further information, please contact Yoo Ree Chung: yrchung@iastate.edu.
Conference Schedule
(To read abstracts or visit presenters’ homepages, click titles or presenters’ names below.)
Scheman Building (Room 175-179) |
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| 1:00-1:45 PM | Registration (Lobby next to 175 Schemen) |
| 1:45-2:00 PM | Welcome by Carol A. Chapelle |
| 2:00-2:30 PM | The development of a web-based Spanish listening exam, Cristina Pardo Ballester (Iowa State University) |
| 2:30-3:00 PM | Minimal pairs in spoken corpora: Implications for pronunciation assessment and teaching, John Levis & Viviana Cortes (Iowa State University) |
| 3:00-3:40 PM |
[Invited Presentation 1] Premises, conditions, and a framework for cognitive diagnostic assessment, Eunice Eunhee Jang (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education |
| 3:40-4:00 PM | Break |
| 4:00-4:30 PM | Using diagnostic information to adapt traditional textbook-based instruction, Joan Jamieson, Maja Grgurovic, and Tony Becker (Northern Arizona University, Iowa State University, and Northern Arizona University, respectively) |
| 4:30-5:00 PM | Extending learner models for intelligent computer-assisted language learning beyond grammar, Luiz A. Amaral & Detmar Meurers (University of Victoria and Ohio State University, respectively) |
| 5:00-5:30 PM | Soundwaves and spectrographs: Feedback for L2 learners, Fran Gulinello (Nassau Community College) |
| 5:45-7:30 PM | Reception (190 Stagedoor) |
Memorial Union (Pioneer Room) |
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| 8:30-9:00 AM | Registration (Outside of the Pioneer Room) and Refreshments |
| 9:00-10:15 AM |
[Keynote] A Taxonomy of adaptive testing, Robert Mislevy (University of Maryland) |
| 10:15-10:30 AM | Break |
| 10:30-11:10 AM |
[Invited Presentation 2] Error-coded ESL learners’ essays and automated diagnostic feedback, Yong-Won Lee (Seoul National University, Korea) |
| 11:10-11:40 AM | Machine scoring in diagnostic assessment of L2 spoken language skills, Masa Suzuki & Alistair van Moere (Ordinate Corporation) |
| 11:40 AM-12:10 PM | Automated diagnostic writing tests: Why? How?, Elena Cotos & Nick Pendar (Iowa State University) |
| 12:10-1:20 PM | Lunch Break |
| 1:20-2:00 PM |
[Invited Presentation 3] Decisions about automated scoring: What they mean for our constructs, Nathan Carr (California State University, Fullerton) |
| 2:00-2:30 PM | Towards cognitive response theory in diagnostic language assessment: An assumption bridging cognitive science and language testing, Quan Zhang (College of Foreign Studies, Southern Medical University, China) |
| 2:30-3:10 PM |
[Invited Presentation 4] What and how much evidence do we need? Critical considerations for using automated speech scoring systems, Xiaoming Xi (Educational Testing Service) |
| 3:10-3:30 PM | Break |
| 3:30-4:00 PM | NLP-based CALL: A review of evaluation and effectiveness, Maja Grgurovic & Nick Pendar (Iowa State University) |
| 4:00-4:30 PM | Study on the quantitative analyses of learner data and their implications for designing CALL tasks, Jinhee Choo & Doe Hyung Kim (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) |
| 4:30-5:00 PM | An innovative record-keeping of learners’ language performance: Using computer-mediated chat dialogue for assessment and learning purposes, Melissa Baralt (Georgetown University) |
| 5:00-5:40 PM |
[Invited Presentation 5] Modeling SLA processes using NLP, Mathias Schulze (University of Waterloo) |
| 6:00-9:00 PM | Reception (Hosted by Prof. Volker Hegelheimer) |