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Computer-Assisted Item Generation for Listening Cloze Tests and Dictation Practice in English

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We take advantages of abundant text resource on the Internet and information about English phonetics for assisting human teachers to prepare test items for listening and dictation in English. In this preliminary exploration, we built an environment in which teachers choose words that they want to have test items for, and teachers compose the final test items based on the test items that are algorithmically generated by our system. The output of the current system indicates that computers can play active roles in assisting the composition of test items, though we have not done a field test over the usability issues.

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Shang-Ming Huang & Chao-Lin Liu

  2. Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Zhao-Ming Gao

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Huang, SM., Liu, CL., Gao, ZM. (2005). Computer-Assisted Item Generation for Listening Cloze Tests and Dictation Practice in English. In: Lau, R.W.H., Li, Q., Cheung, R., Liu, W. (eds) Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2005. ICWL 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3583. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11528043_19

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