Towards Task-Oriented ICALL: A Criterion-Referenced Learner Dashboard Organising Digital Practice

Leona Colling, Leona Colling, Ines Pieronczyk, Ines Pieronczyk, Cora Parrisius, Cora Parrisius, Cora Parrisius, Heiko Holz, Heiko Holz, Heiko Holz, Stephen Bodnar, Stephen Bodnar, Stephen Bodnar, Florian Nuxoll, Florian Nuxoll, Detmar Meurers, Detmar Meurers, Detmar Meurers

2024

Abstract

Practice is an essential part of learning. Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) systems can provide practice opportunities and give insights into the learner’s learning state and progress. Open learner models have been designed to provide learners with information on the overall learning domain. However, current approaches to foreign language teaching typically motivate practice as preparation for a communicative or functional task. This raises the question of how this motivating functional task context and progress towards mastering the task-essential language can be made explicit in an ICALL system. We present an approach to ICALL practice that is orchestrated in a dashboard that provides information on the learner’s competence-oriented learning progress towards the overall task goals. The dashboard allows students to choose what to practice next based on this information, which provides a transparent, motivating link to the purpose of practicing. Organising digital practice based on a task- and competence-oriented curriculum also facilitates the acceptance of ICALL in the formal school setting. The dashboard introduced in this article extends the intelligent tutoring system FeedBook for English in German secondary schools. The article provides the theoretical background for the dashboard’s structure, motivates the design process, and describes the resulting implementation.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Colling L., Pieronczyk I., Parrisius C., Holz H., Bodnar S., Nuxoll F. and Meurers D. (2024). Towards Task-Oriented ICALL: A Criterion-Referenced Learner Dashboard Organising Digital Practice. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: EKM; ISBN 978-989-758-697-2, SciTePress, pages 668-679. DOI: 10.5220/0012753000003693

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ekm24,
author={Leona Colling and Ines Pieronczyk and Cora Parrisius and Heiko Holz and Stephen Bodnar and Florian Nuxoll and Detmar Meurers},
title={Towards Task-Oriented ICALL: A Criterion-Referenced Learner Dashboard Organising Digital Practice},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: EKM},
year={2024},
pages={668-679},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012753000003693},
isbn={978-989-758-697-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: EKM
TI - Towards Task-Oriented ICALL: A Criterion-Referenced Learner Dashboard Organising Digital Practice
SN - 978-989-758-697-2
AU - Colling L.
AU - Pieronczyk I.
AU - Parrisius C.
AU - Holz H.
AU - Bodnar S.
AU - Nuxoll F.
AU - Meurers D.
PY - 2024
SP - 668
EP - 679
DO - 10.5220/0012753000003693
PB - SciTePress