The Use of Corpora and IT in Evaluating Oral Task Competence for Tourism English
ARTICLE
Alejandro Curado Fuentes
CALICO Journal Volume 22, Number 1, ISSN 0742-7778
Abstract
This paper describes a method in oral fluency evaluation for Tourism English according to a corpus-based lexical approach. Our main research focus is placed on measuring oral skill competence among Tourism English (TE) learners by contrasting their word use and linguistic fluency, achieved in two types of oral tasks, with corpus data frequencies. Information Technology (IT) resources and electronic corpora are two integrated tools in the evaluative approach to identify significant performance changes between learners who have managed such electronic resources and learners who have not. (Contains 7 figures and 6 tables.)
Citation
Fuentes, A.C. (2004). The Use of Corpora and IT in Evaluating Oral Task Competence for Tourism English. CALICO Journal, 22(1), 5-24. Retrieved March 28, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/74301/.
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Keywords
- Business Administration Education
- College Instruction
- College Second Language Programs
- Communicative Competence (Languages)
- Computational Linguistics
- Computer Assisted Instruction
- Computer Software
- educational technology
- electronic learning
- English (Second Language)
- English for Special Purposes
- EVALUATION METHODS
- Foreign Countries
- information technology
- LANGUAGE FLUENCY
- Second Language Instruction
- second language learning
- Tourism