Nicholls, D., Knill, K., Gales, M.J.F. et al. (2 more authors) (2023) Speak & improve: L2 English speaking practice tool. In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2023. INTERSPEECH 2023, 20-24 Aug 2024, Dublin, Ireland. International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) , pp. 3669-3670.
Abstract
A problem for building and studying approaches to automatically assess and give feedback to L2 English learners on their speaking ability is a lack of suitable data sets and platforms to run experiments on. This paper describes the Speak & Improve (S&I) speaking practice tool, which has been designed to meet the needs of researchers while also offering learners the opportunity to practise their English speaking and improve their confidence. S&I has tasks that allow the learner to demonstrate and improve their proficiency across the English speaking construct. Most of the tasks are free speaking, that is, the learner is not constrained in what they have to say. Over 400,000 learners worldwide have tried the alpha version of S&I. This paper presents the next version which provides more choice and flexibility to the users and more feedback on performance.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 ISCA. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | spoken language assessment; computer assisted language learning; speaking practice |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Computer Science (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 05 Jun 2024 11:45 |
Last Modified: | 02 Sep 2024 12:52 |
Published Version: | https://www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_2023/nich... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) |
Refereed: | Yes |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:213150 |