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Rete Europea per la Combinazione dell'Apprendimento delle Lingue con le Tecniche di Crowdsourcing

L'Azione enetCollect affronta una delle principali sfide europee, ovvero quella di promuovere le competenze linguistiche di tutti i cittadini, indipendentemente dal loro retroterra sociale, educativo e linguistico. A tale scopo l'azione si colloca nell’ambito dell’apprendimento delle lingue con un focus particolare sulla produzione di materiale per l’apprendimento. Infatti, la domanda di apprendimento delle lingue è in crescita costante e i profili degli apprendenti stanno sperimentando una notevole diversificazione grazie all’incremento dei flussi migratori per motivi di studio, economico-professionali o geopolitici.

EnetCollect affronta questa sfida ponendo le basi per un nuovo indirizzo di Ricerca & Innovazione, che combini l’ormai consolidato dominio dell’apprendimento linguistico con i recenti approcci di crowdsourcing. L’obiettivo è quello di dare il via a un potenziale crowdsourcing per tutte le lingue e innescare così una svolta innovativa per la produzione di materiale per l’apprendimento linguistico. EnetCollect persegue questo fine costruendo una comunità internazionale e interdisciplinare di Ricerca & Innovazione, creando un quadro teorico completo e svolgendo esperimenti originali in un’ottica open science, open access e open data.

EnetCollect si prefigge inoltre di applicare il principio del crowdsourcing in modo simultaneo ai materiali di apprendimento linguistico e a set di dati correlati alle lingue, allo scopo di coinvolgere e ottenere la collaborazione di figure attive nella Ricerca & Innovazione in ambito linguistico (es. linguisti computazionali). EnetCollect si propone inoltre di sviluppare questo nuovo trend di Ricerca & Innovazione attraverso molteplici procedimenti paralleli e reciprocamente vantaggiosi, che ne favoriscano un successo sia a breve che a lungo termine.

Di conseguenza, EnetCollect rappresenterà il primo passo verso la produzione sostenibile e continua di materiale di apprendimento delle lingue per qualsiasi lingua e destinatario.

Project duration: March 2017 - September 2021
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Website: http://enetcollect.eurac.edu/
Institute: Istituto di linguistica applicata

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Scientific Publications

Inbook2021

Introducing an implicit crowdsourcing opportunity to teachers

Nicolas L, Ostanina-Olszewska J, Arhar Holdt Š, Borg, C, Čibej J, Lyding V, Barreiro A

Lionel Nicolas

This paper aims at attracting attention towards crowdsourcing opportunities for the language teaching community. It presents and discusses a specific crowdsourcing paradigm designed to mass-produce exercise content for different languages by involving their language learners online. The discussion of the implicit crowdsourcing paradigm is framed by a broader look at the current situation regarding crowdsourcing and language learning. Therefore, we first introduce the concept of crowdsourcing, report on the teacher perspective and discuss common objections and practical challenges with regard to the compatibility of the language learning community with crowdsourcing in terms of expertise, motivation and feasibility. The implicit crowdsourcing paradigm we introduce proposes an approach for automatically generating language learning resources and, at the same time, crowdsourcing language-related datasets. It is designed to exploit a synergy between the language learning community and R&I partners working in language-related areas. The proposed approach is one of multiple experimental initiatives, which are being studied and explored within the enetCollect COST Action (European Network for Combining Language Learning with Crowdsourcing Techniques). We conclude the paper with a discussion on our efforts to raise awareness among the varied stakeholders so as to foster the creation of tools implementing the crowdsourcing paradigm.

DOI Fonte

DOI: 10.3726/b18131

Journal article2020

Language Teachers and Crowdsourcing: Insights from a Cross-European Survey

Arhar Holdt Š, Zviel-Girshin R, Gajek E, Durán-Muñoz I, Bago P, Fort K, Hatipoğlu Ç, Kasperavičienė R,

Lorenzo Zanasi

The paper presents a cross-European survey on teachers and crowdsourcing. The survey examines how familiar language teachers are with the concept of crowdsourcing and addresses their attitude towards including crowdsourcing into language teaching activities. The survey was administrated via an online questionnaire and collected volunteers’ data on: (a) teachers’ experience with organizing crowdsourcing activities for students/pupils, (b) the development of crowdsourced resources and materials as well as (c) teachers’ motivation for participating in or employing crowdsourcing activities. The questionnaire was disseminated in over 30 European countries. The final sample comprises 1129 language teachers aged 20 to 65, mostly working at institutions of tertiary education. The data indicates that many participants are not familiar with the concept of crowdsourcing resulting in a low rate of crowdsourcing activities in the classroom. However, a high percentage of responding teachers is potentially willing to crowdsource teaching materials for the language(s) they teach. They are particularly willing to collaborate with other teachers in the creation of interactive digital learning materials, and to select, edit, and share language examples for exercises or tests. Since the inclusion of crowdsourcing activities in language teaching is still in its initial stage, steps for further research are highlighted.

DOI

DOI: 10.31724/rihjj.46.1.1

Conference proceedings article2020

Substituto - A Synchronous Educational Language Game for Simultaneous Teaching and Crowdsourcing

Araneta MG, Eryigit G, König A, Lee Ji-Ung, Luís AR, Lyding V, Nicolas L, Rodosthenous C,

Lionel Nicolas

This paper investigates a general framework for synchronous educational language games that simultaneously allows researchers to crowdsource learner answers in a controlled environment. Our prototype Substituto allows teachers and students to interact in real-time while undergoing language learning exercises; ensuring that the learner's progress is not hurt by the introduction of crowdsourc-ing elements. We evaluate Substituto with a small-scale user study that focuses on training the use of English verb-particle constructions (VPCs), such as break down or take over, and test their use with second language learners of English of different proficiency levels over five pilot sessions. With the study we aim to ensure that our prototypical implementation behaves as expected and to identify any major design flaws that should be addressed. The preliminary results we achieved in order to evaluate the educational value, the user experience and the crowdsourcing capacity of Substituto confirm that it has the potential to become a valuable asset for language learning, a pleasant learning instrument and a crowdsourcing tool for collecting linguistic knowledge.

DOI Fonte

DOI: 10.3384/ecp201759

Journal article2018

enetCollect: A New European Network for combining Language Learning with Crowdsourcing Techniques

Agerri R, Maritxalar M, Lyding V, Nicolas L

Lionel Nicolas

We present enetCollect, a large European COST action network set upwith the aim of promoting a research trend combining the well-established domain of Language Learning with recent and successful crowdsourcing approaches. More specifically, the challenge of enetCollect is to foster the language skills of all citizens regardless of their backgrounds by enhancing the production of language learning material using Crowdsourcing techniques. In order to do so, the action will create a balanced interdisciplinary community of active stakeholders related to content- creation, content-usage, and Learning/Content Management Systems to create a theoretical framework for achieving a shared understanding of Language Learning and Crowdsourcing. This will allow to unlock the crowdsourcing potential available for language learning and to facilitate the development of prototypical experiments for the production of language learning material, such as lesson or exercise content. These activities would potentially benefit a wide range of users and languages.

DOI Fonte

DOI: 10.26342/2018-61-25

All Publications

Can computers generate language learning exercises?
Nicolas L (2023)
Internet

Ulteriori informazioni: https://www.eurac.edu/en/blogs/connecting-the-dots/can-c ...

https://doi.org/10.57708/bnqqd9k9hqo-5hl42udukmg

An Experiment on Implicitly Crowdsourcing Expert Knowledge about Romanian Synonyms from L1 Language Learners
Nicolas L, Aparaschivei L, Lyding V, Rodosthenous C, Sangati F, König A, Forascu C (2021)
Contributo in atti di convegno

Conference: 10th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2021) | Reykjavik | 31.5.2021 - 31.5.2021

Ulteriori informazioni: https://ep.liu.se/ecp/177/001/ecp2021177001.pdf

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/19660

Implicitly Crowdsourcing Expert Knowledge about Romanian: Synonyms from Language Learners
Nicolas L (2021)
Presentazione

Conference: 10th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2021) | Reykjavik | 31.5.2021 - 31.5.2021

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/18565

Project Team

Lionel Nicolas

Project Manager

Verena Ruth Hilde Lyding

Vice Manager

Jennifer-Carmen Frey

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