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09:00 - Tea, coffee, pastries
09:30 - Welcome
09:40 - Talk 1: Mariano Felice, Lucy Skidmore & Karen Dunn (British Council) [slides🪧] [video🎬]
English vocabulary knowledge prediction across diverse L1 backgrounds.
(Mariano Felice, Lucy Skidmore and Karen Dunn)
10:10 - Talk 2: Denise Löfflad (Tübingen) [slides🪧]
Criterial Features in German: Operationalization and Validation in CEFR-aligned Graded Readers.
(Denise Löfflad and Detmar Meurers)
10:40 - Talk 3: Diana Galvan-Sosa, Gabrielle Gaudeau, Suchir Salhan (Cambridge) [video🎬]
Brewing Better Feedback: Criteria-based Assessment of Feedback quality (CAFe).
(Gabrielle Gaudeau, Diana Galvan-Sosa, Suchir Salhan, Lily Goulder, Aoife O'Driscoll and Andrew Caines)
Beyond First Attempts: Deep Learning Knowledge Tracing for Post-Feedback Performance in Language Learning.
(Walid El Hefny and Detmar Meurers)
12:00 - Talk 5: Kordula de Kuthy (Tübingen) [slides🪧]
Adaptivity in an Intelligent Tutoring System should reflect the diversity of students, not just their different levels of knowledge.
(Kordula De Kuthy and Detmar Meurers)
Exploiting the English Vocabulary Profile for L2 word-level vocabulary assessment with LLMs.
(Stefano Bannò, Kate Knill and Mark Gales)
14:00 - Talk 7: Joni Kruijsbergen (Ghent) [slides🪧]
‘ChatGPT can write it for me’: AI in the L2 Dutch learning context.
(Joni Kruijsbergen, Chloé Lybaert and Orphée De Clercq)
14:30 - Coffee break
14:50 - Talk 8: Matthew Pattemore (Tübingen) [video🎬]
Evaluating the Impact of Corrective Feedback Types in Children’s Digital Language Games.
(Matthew Pattemore)
Giving GenAI a Pedagogical Brain: Domain Modeling for LLM-Mediated Grammar Practice.
(Luisa Ribeiro-Flucht, Detmar Meurers and Xiaobin Chen)
15:50 - Break
16:00 - Talk 10: Øistein Andersen & Geraldine Mark (Cambridge, Limerick) [slides🪧]
Developing the English Grammar Profile Tagger: A Tool for Grammatical Annotation and CEFR-Level Mapping.
(Øistein Andersen, Geraldine Mark, Anne O'Keeffe, Andrew Caines, Diane Nicholls, and Paula Buttery)
16:30 - Talk 11: Detmar Meurers (Tübingen) [slides🪧]
Linguistic Complexity in Longitudinal and Cross-sectional Perspectives.
(Detmar Meurers and Yushan Li)
17:00 - Closing remarks
19:00 - Dinner
Protecting privacy of learner datasets - the case of pseudonymization.
(Elena Volodina, Simon Dobnik, Ricardo Muñoz Sanchéz and Maria Irena Szawerna)
10:00 - Talk 13: Kate Belcher (Tübingen) [slides🪧]
Exploring Approaches to Short Answer Grading in Domain-Specific Educational Settings.
(Kate Belcher, Kordula de Kuthy and Detmar Meurers)
10:30 - Talk 14: Suchir Salhan (Cambridge)
Bilingual language models as computational models of human bilingualism and AI-based solutions to support second-language learning
(Suchir Salhan)
A Peek into Skill Transfer: from structured grammar practice to free production.
(Daniela Verratti-Souto, Kordula De Kuthy and Detmar Meurers)
LLM-Powered but Rule-Grounded: Grammatical Error Correction for Learner Model Construction.
(Soroosh Akef, Amália Mendes, Detmar Meurers and Patrick Rebuschat)
12:30 - Talk 17: Shiva Taslimipoor (Cambridge) [slides🪧]
Dataset of Responses and Annotations for Reading Comprehension Multiple Choice Questions
(Shiva Taslimipoor, Luca Benedetto, Andrew Caines, Can Jin and Yongcan Liu)
13:00 - Closing remarks