Automated Assessment of Spoken Modern Standard Arabic Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:5096602, abstract = {Proficiency testing is an important ingredient in successful language teaching. However, repeated testing for course placement, over the course of instruction or for certification can be time-consuming and costly. We present the design and validation of the Versant Arabic Test, a fully automated test of spoken Modern Standard Arabic, that evaluates test-takers' facility in listening and speaking. Experimental data shows the test to be highly reliable (testretest r=0.97) and to strongly predict performance on the ILR OPI (r=0.87), a standard interview test that assesses oral proficiency.}, address = {Boulder, Colorado}, author = {Cheng, Jian and Bernstein, Jared and Pado, Ulrike and Suzuki, Masanori}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications}, citeulike-article-id = {5096602}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W09/W09-2101.bib}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W09/W09-2101.pdf}, keywords = {arabic}, month = {June}, pages = {1--9}, posted-at = {2009-07-09 17:18:55}, priority = {0}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, title = {Automated Assessment of Spoken Modern Standard Arabic}, url = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W09/W09-2101.bib}, year = {2009} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:5096602 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5096602 N2 - Proficiency testing is an important ingredient in successful language teaching. However, repeated testing for course placement, over the course of instruction or for certification can be time-consuming and costly. We present the design and validation of the Versant Arabic Test, a fully automated test of spoken Modern Standard Arabic, that evaluates test-takers' facility in listening and speaking. Experimental data shows the test to be highly reliable (testretest r=0.97) and to strongly predict performance on the ILR OPI (r=0.87), a standard interview test that assesses oral proficiency. AD - Boulder, Colorado EP - 9 TI - Automated Assessment of Spoken Modern Standard Arabic PB - Association for Computational Linguistics T2 - Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications SP - 1 KW - arabic AU - Cheng, Jian AU - Bernstein, Jared AU - Pado, Ulrike AU - Suzuki, Masanori PY - 2009/June// UR - http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W09/W09-2101.bib ER -