Using LARA for language learning: a pilot study for Icelandic

Bédi, Branislav; Chua, Cathy; Habibi, Hanieh; Martinez-Lopez, Ruth; Rayner, Emmanuel

doi:10.14705/rpnet.2019.38.9782490057542

Proceedings chapter

English

Using LARA for language learning: a pilot study for Icelandic

ContributorsBédi, Branislav; Chua, Cathy; Habibi, Hanieh; Martinez-Lopez, Ruth; Rayner, Emmanuel

Presented atLouvain-la-Neuve (Belgique), 28-31 August

Published inFanny Meunier, Julie Van de Vyver,Linda Bradley & Sylvie Thouësny (Ed.), CALL and complexity: short papers from EUROCALL 2019, p. 33-38

PublisherResearch-publishing.net

Publication date2019

Abstract

This paper presents a brief overview of LARA (Learning And Reading Assistant), an open source online tool that has been under development since summer 2018. LARA currently6 contains a corpus of about 25 texts in ten languages and a crowdsourcing model used to expand the corpus. The central goal is to provide support for improving second language (L2) reading comprehension. The focus here is on the development of Icelandic content and its use during pilot testing amongst adult L2 learners of Icelandic. Preliminary feedback from users, while mostly positive, contained suggestions on how the tool might be improved.

Keywords

Crowdsourcing
L2 learning
Open-source
Pilot testing
Reading

Affiliation entities

Faculté de traduction et d'interprétation / Département de traitement informatique multilingue

Research groups

TIM/ISSCO

Funding

Swiss National Science Foundation - FNS Callector

Citation (ISO format)

BÉDI, Branislav et al. Using LARA for language learning: a pilot study for Icelandic. In: CALL and complexity: short papers from EUROCALL 2019. Fanny Meunier, Julie Van de Vyver,Linda Bradley & Sylvie Thouësny (Ed.). Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgique). [s.l.] : Research-publishing.net, 2019. p. 33–38. doi: 10.14705/rpnet.2019.38.9782490057542