2023 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
The development of a computerized adaptive diagnostic grammar test for Japanese university students
| Project/Area Number |
23K12247
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
オウ キョウ 早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 講師(任期付) (80876079)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2023-04-01 – 2026-03-31
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| Keywords | grammar error / university students / error annotation |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Around 250 essays written by Japanese university students were collected and subsequently analyzed by English grammar experts. Specifically, the experts selected erroneous sentences from the essays, corrected the mistakes and compiled a comparative corpus consisting the original and corrected sentence pairs. These sentence pairs were then annotated by another group of experts based on existing error annotation frameworks. With these results, questions will be designed in the second year that represent commonly seen mistakes in Japanese students' writing.
The results have been published in LREC-COLING 2024 - The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
I have completed the tasks as planned for the first year.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In the second year, I will create questions targeting the common mistakes in Japanese students' writing. Then I'll recruit students to take the quiz and perform further analysis to validate the questions. After that, I'll determine the difficulty level of the questions in order to make the test adaptive.
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| Causes of Carryover |
There was a small amount left from the previous year. I plan to use the leftover in recruiting participants to take the test.
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