ERIC Number: EJ1219272
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Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 32
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Using an ANN-Based Computational Model to Simulate and Evaluate Chinese Students' Individualized Cognitive Abilities Important in Their English Acquisition
Yang, Juan; Thomas, Michael S. C.; Qi, Xiaofei; Liu, Xuan
Computer Assisted Language Learning, v32 n4 p366-397 2019
From a psycholinguistic perspective of view, there are many cognitive differences that matter to individuals' second-language acquisition (SLA). Although many computer-assisted tools have been developed to capture and narrow the differences among learners, the use of these strategies may be highly risky because changing the environments or the participants may lead to failure. In this paper, we propose an artificial neural network (ANN)-based computational model to simulate the environment to which students are exposed. The ANN computational model equips English teachers with the ability to quickly find the predicting factors to learners' overall English competences and also provides teachers with the ability to find abnormal students, based on reviewing their individualized ANN trajectories. Finally, by observing the compound effects of cognitive factors using the same evaluation scale, new hypotheses about the mutual relationships among the phonological awareness, phonological short-term memory, and long-term memory abilities of their students can be generated. Our experimental ANNs suggested three detailed corresponding conclusions for the participants' English teachers. These results provide teachers with guidance in designing and applying cognitive ability-related intervention strategies in their L2 pedagogical activities.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Ability, Phonological Awareness, English Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Short Term Memory, Long Term Memory, Second Language Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Predictor Variables, Verbs, Phonemes, Morphemes, Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Models, Simulation
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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