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Development of the Online Self-Placement Test Engine That Interactively Selects Texts for an Extensive Reading Test

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Intelligent Interactive Multimedia: Systems and Services

Part of the book series: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies ((SIST,volume 14))

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Extensive reading is a method of learning language by reading many books that are easy and enjoyable. There is a need for a placement instrument to evaluate learners’ reading levels and the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading tests are well established. However, they have a few drawbacks, for example they are paper tests and preparing the correct level of test for individual learners is difficult. The Extensive Reading Foundation Online Self-Placement Test (ERFOSPT) is a new online self-placement test that “evaluates learners fluent reading levels easily, quickly and accurately”. It delivers the test via the Internet and adaptively selects texts depending on records of the learners reading level and the results of previous questions in the test. In this paper we explain the development of the Online Self- Placement Test engine that is a part of the ERFOSPT.

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  1. Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shinshu University, 4-17-1, Wakasato, Nagano City, Nagano, Japan

    Kosuke Adachi

  2. Language Education Center, School of General Education, Shinshu University, 3-1-1, Asahi, Matsumoto City, Nagano, Japan

    Mark Brierley

  3. e-Learning Center, Shinshu University, 3-1-1, Asahi, Matsumoto City, Nagano, Japan

    Masaaki Niimura

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  1. Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan

    Toyohide Watanabe

  2. Graduate School of Information,, Production & Systems (IPS), Waseda University, Hibikino 2-7, Kitakyushu, 808-0135, Japan

    Junzo Watada

  3. Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8555, Japan

    Naohisa Takahashi

  4. KES International, PO Box 2115, Shoreham-by-Sea, BN43 9AF, United Kingdom

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    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Adachi, K., Brierley, M., Niimura, M. (2012). Development of the Online Self-Placement Test Engine That Interactively Selects Texts for an Extensive Reading Test. In: Watanabe, T., Watada, J., Takahashi, N., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Intelligent Interactive Multimedia: Systems and Services. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29934-6_21

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