Intelligent CALL, granular systems and learner data: short papers from EUROCALL 2022, 1, Research-publishing.net, pp.386-391, 2022, ⟨10.14705/rpnet.2022.61.1489⟩
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2022
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Language researchers and teachers have long been interested in the timing of learning, and the distributed practice effect, whereby greater inter-session intervals result in longer retention, is well-known (Kim & Webb, 2022). Many L2 studies have focused on the intentional learning of lexis (Edmonds, Gerbier, Palasis, & Whyte, 2021), neglecting implicit learning and syntactic development (Rogers, 2021). The present project includes both explicit vocabulary learning activities and incidental exposure to a complex syntactic structure via a bespoke online L2 English learning platform. The goal is to investigate the two types of learning in two spacing conditions. This paper describes (1) the learning activities created to present opportunities for explicit vocabulary learning and the concealed syntactic input, and (2) the tests used to evaluate participants’ receptive and productive knowledge of target items. It aims to inform computer assisted language learning design with respect to pedagogical progression, learning activities, feedback, and learning schedules.
21st conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Sep 2019, Tenerife, Spain
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2019
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We aimed to examine the generalizability of the results obtained by Mazza et al. (2016) on the effect of sleep on relearning and long-term retention. They showed that Swahili-French word pairs were relearned faster after a 12-hour interval when nocturnal sleep was interspersed during this interval, and that they were also better recalled one week later. They used an intensive relearning procedure using tests with feedback until a criterion of all 16 items correct in a row, possibly leading to overlearning. We replicated this original study with a less demanding criterion for relearning, i.e., one correct answer per item. The data are currently being collected. They will indicate whether the sleep effect on relearning and on long-term retention was due to the specific relearning methods, and possibly by overlearning, in Mazza et al.’s study, or whether they can be generalized to different relearning procedures.
Emilie Gerbier, Guillaume T. Vallet, Thomas C. Toppino, Stéphanie Mazza
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41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Jul 2019, Montreal, Canada
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2019
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How sleep affects memory in older adults is a critical topic, since age significantly impacts both sleep and memory. For declarative memory, previous research reports contradictory results, with some studies showing sleep-dependent memory consolidation and some other not. We hypothesize that this discrepancy may be due to the use of recall as the memory measure, a demanding task for older adults. The present paper focuses on the effect of sleep on relearning, a measure that proved useful to reveal subtle, implicit memory effects. Previous research in young adults showed that sleeping after learning was more beneficial to relearning the same Swahili-French word pairs 12 hours later, compared with the same interval spent awake. In particular, those words that could not be recalled were relearned faster when participants previously slept. The effect of sleep was also beneficial for retention after a one-week and a 6-month delay. The present study used the same experimental design in older adults aged 71 on average but showed no significant effect of sleep on consolidation, on relearning, or on long-term retention. Thus, even when using relearning speed as the memory measure, the consolidating effect of sleep in older adults was not demonstrated, in alignment with some previous findings.
Reading while listening to texts (RWL) is a promising way to improve the learning benefits provided by a reading experience. In an exploratory study, we investigated the effect of synchronizing the highlighting of words (visual) with their auditory (speech) counterpart during a RWL task. Forty French children from 3rd to 5th grade read short stories in their native language while hearing the story spoken by a narrator. In the non-synchronized (S-) condition the text was written in black on a white background, whereas in the synchronized (S+) RWL, the text was written in grey and the words were dynamically written in black when they were aurally displayed, in a karaoke-like fashion. The children were then unexpectedly tested on their memory for the orthographic form and semantic category of pseudowords that were included in the stories. The effect of synchronizing was null in the orthographic task and negative in the semantic task. Children’s preference was mainly for the S- condition, except for the poorest readers who tended to prefer the S+ condition. In addition, the children's eye movements were recorded during reading. Gaze was affected by synchronization, with fewer but longer fixations on words, and fewer regressive saccades in the S+ condition compared to the S- condition. Thus, the S+ condition presumably captured the children's attention toward the currently heard word, which forced the children to be strictly aligned with the oral modality.