Development of automated scoring system for L2 speech and examination of its practicality

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370746
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: Yusuke Kondo 早稲田大学, グローバルエデュケーションセンター, 准教授 (80409739)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 中野 美知子 早稲田大学, 教育・総合科学学術院, 名誉教授 (70148229) ; 吉田 諭史 早稲田大学, グローバルエデュケーションセンター, 助教 (00608838) ; 石井 雄隆 早稲田大学, 大学総合研究センター, 助手 (90756545)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 言語テスト / 英語の発話能力 / 自動採点

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We developed an automated scoring system for speech by Japanese learners of English and examined its practicality in an English language program. The system assesses the students' responses to tasks that were created to elicit the expressions learned in the program. The exact agreement is 74% between our system and the human scores.

Free Research Field

言語テスト