A Fully Automatic Homework Checking System  

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Sciarone, A.G.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: IRAL: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching vol. 33 no. 1 (Feb. 1995), page 35-46.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/IRA/33 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Research in the field of language testing has greatly improved our insights into the effectiveness of tests designed to measure the final product of the foreign language education process. Little attention has been paid, however, to the quality of all sorts of informal tests that foreign language teachers use to check if students really carry out the learning tasks they have been set - the type of test that is meant to monitor students' progress towards the final goal. There are at least two reasons why this lack of attention is unfortunate. 1) To get a good learning PRODUCT, it is important to closely monitor the learning PROCESS. 2) To properly evaluate the effectiveness of our foreign language education methods and the theories underlying them, we must be sure that students really have performed the learning tasks required by a particular method. With individual students, monitoring the learning process has always been relatively easy. With groups, however, systematic and effective monitoring has only become possible with the widespread availability of computers. This paper presents the findings of an experiment involving almost 200 foreign students of Dutch in which their individual performance on a variety of learning tasks were automatically and systematically checked and rechecked using personal computers. These findings show that with the help of a relatively simple monitoring tool - an uncomplicated computer program that can be used by any teacher - the learning product can be improved substantially in comparison with that produced by groups of students monitored in more traditional ways.

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