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Teaching English Word Order with CorrectWriting Software

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The article looks into the problem of using interactive computer technologies in technology-enhanced teaching English at a technical university. An electronic course “English Word Order” using CorrectWriting software for Moodle LMS was developed and used to teach students of various levels of education. The system of formative and summative assessments regarding the word order of English sentences was studied. The students’ responses to CorrectWriting questions were analyzed using the Longest Common Subsequence algorithm, allowing determining misplaced, missing and extraneous words. During formative assessments, the students were offered automatic hints on how to fix their mistakes without having to wait for feedback from the teacher. The learning gains and the student survey prove the efficiency of the developed online course which helps to improve students’ grammar skills during the classes and unsupervised work. The study also notes a positive role of electronic teaching materials in optimizing the technological and organizational support of the educational process. Further work on enhancing the developed course and software is outlined.

The reported study was funded by RFBR, project number 20-07-00764.

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    Elena Novozhenina, Oleg Sychev, Olga Toporkova & Oksana Evtushenko

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Novozhenina, E., Sychev, O., Toporkova, O., Evtushenko, O. (2021). Teaching English Word Order with CorrectWriting Software. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021. ICCSA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12951. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86970-0_47

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