ERIC Number: ED600886
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Publication Date: 2019-Dec
Pages: 7
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Using LARA for Language Learning: A Pilot Study for Icelandic
Bédi, Branislav; Chua, Cathy; Habibi, Hanieh; Martinez-Lopez, Ruth; Rayner, Manny
Research-publishing.net, Paper presented at the EUROCALL 2019 Conference (27th, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, Aug 28-31, 2019)
This paper presents a brief overview of LARA (Learning And Reading Assistant), an open source online tool that has been under development since summer 2018. LARA currently contains a corpus of about 25 texts in ten languages and a crowdsourcing model used to expand the corpus. The central goal is to provide support for improving second language (L2) reading comprehension. The focus here is on the development of Icelandic content and its use during pilot testing amongst adult L2 learners of Icelandic. Preliminary feedback from users, while mostly positive, contained suggestions on how the tool might be improved. [For the complete proceedings, see ED600837.]
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Indo European Languages, Computational Linguistics, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Open Source Technology, Adults, Reading Instruction, Feedback (Response), Computer Software, College Students, Student Attitudes, Usability, Instructional Effectiveness
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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