Affiliation of Author(s):网络教育学院
Journal:Proceedings of the Conference Distance education: a brave new world?
Funded by:学校社科项目
Abstract:Dictation is considered as an efficient exercise for testing FFL learners’ language proficiency. However, the traditional “class-based” approach to dictation entails many constraints due to the inherent complexity in the way this exercise is designed, materialized and conducted. To remedy this, this study adopts a design-based research approach and tries to design, develop and apply an intelligent French dictation platform, tested by fifty undergraduate FFL learners after class. Through an examination of learners’ feedback, this study identifies advantages such as time-space flexibility, instant correction and possibility to repeat exercises; but also disadvantages, such as inconvenience of typing text, impossibility to promptly ask teacher questions and absence of collective learning and supervision. Crucially, this study makes an encouraging step in classifying frequent errors committed by Chinese learners. The result is the starting point of the development of a more advanced dictation platform in the future, which will provide an automatized error classification.
Indexed by:Article
Volume:1
Translation or Not:no
Date of Publication:2022-10-21
First Author:zhaiyuming
Co-author:tiannina,huangxiaoliang
