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Gavin Brooks (Kyoto Sangyo University), TJ Boutorwick (Sanyo Gakuen University)19/05/2024, 09:00Research and DevelopmentResearch Presentation (30 minutes)
Fluency development is an important aspect of second language vocabulary acquisition. Spending time developing fluency helps to increase the speed that words can be accessed. In the context of reading, it is important to develop this fast access to vocabulary to avoid the vicious cycle of reading discussed in Nuttall (1982) and Coady (1997). One way to develop reading fluency is through speed...
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Mr Adam Jenkins (Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology), Luc Gougeon (Sojo University)19/05/2024, 10:50AI for TeachingPractice-based Presentation (30 minutes)
Instead of using proprietary AI offerings, it is possible to run your own private AI within your own laptop or even on a Raspberry Pi. In this hands-on workshop, we will present Ollama, a simple, free and open-source platform for launching and running AI models. Participants will be guided through installing Ollama on their own devices, which is as simple as running a single command or...
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Christopher Ziffo (Nagoya University of Foreign Studies), Taylor Meizlish (Nagoya University of Foreign Studies)19/05/2024, 12:10AI for LearningResearch Presentation (30 minutes)
This presentation will examine the current ability of a Large Language Model, ChatGPT 4, to analyze Discourse Completion Task responses for politeness strategies. The responses to the eight situation DCT meant to elicit 'refusals' were used to create two small corpora: one of University EFL learners and one of University EFL instructors. The instructors' responses were manually coded for use...
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