TY - CONF
T1 - Developing an automated test of spoken Japanese
AU - Harada, Yasunari
AU - Suzuki, Masanori
AU - Bernstein, Jared
N1 - Funding Information:
The research reported here is partly supported by Grant-in-Aid for Exploratory Research #16652040, provided by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and by funding from Ordinate Corporation.
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PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - In order to assess spoken skills of learners of Japanese effectively and more efficiently the Institute for DECODE (Institute for Digital Enhancement of Cognitive Development) at Waseda University is collaborating with Ordinate Corporation to develop and validate an automated test of spoken Japanese, SJT (Spoken Japanese Test). The SJT is intended to measure a test-taker’s facility in spoken Japanese, that is listening and speaking skills in daily conversation, in a quick, accurate and reliable manner. In this paper, we discuss the purposes for developing the SJT, the mechanism of a fully automated test, and the test development processes, including item development and implementation.
AB - In order to assess spoken skills of learners of Japanese effectively and more efficiently the Institute for DECODE (Institute for Digital Enhancement of Cognitive Development) at Waseda University is collaborating with Ordinate Corporation to develop and validate an automated test of spoken Japanese, SJT (Spoken Japanese Test). The SJT is intended to measure a test-taker’s facility in spoken Japanese, that is listening and speaking skills in daily conversation, in a quick, accurate and reliable manner. In this paper, we discuss the purposes for developing the SJT, the mechanism of a fully automated test, and the test development processes, including item development and implementation.
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SP - 291
EP - 298
T2 - 18th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2004
Y2 - 8 December 2004 through 10 December 2004
ER -