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== | == Short description == | ||
ClozeFox is a Firefox extension for language learning purposes which generates fill-in and multiple choice exercises (cloze tests) on-the-fly from authentic pages on the Web. A language learner can easily turn an online authentic text into an interactive, meaningful and useful exercise by using ClozeFox. ClozeFox will allows language teachers to direct their students to selected and suitable web pages that turn into tailor-made exercises. | ClozeFox is a Firefox extension for language learning purposes which generates fill-in and multiple choice exercises (cloze tests) on-the-fly from authentic pages on the Web. A language learner can easily turn an online authentic text into an interactive, meaningful and useful exercise by using ClozeFox. ClozeFox will allows language teachers to direct their students to selected and suitable web pages that turn into tailor-made exercises. | ||
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== INSTALL == | == INSTALL == | ||
Please visit [http://dev.linguapolis.be/jetpack/index.html ClozeFox Install page] and click on the "Install..." button on the upper right corner of the page. | |||
== Progress Reports == | == Progress Reports == | ||
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The close exercise type remains a widely demanded, meaningful, useful and effective activity type. The impact of its deployment depends on the extent to which we can reduce the cost of content authoring (by reusing existing material, making it more generic and exchangeable, by researching new ways of generating content and questions from authentic materials in a computer assisted way, ...), and the cost of software development (by using appropriate design models, by reusing existing components and expertise, by working in open source, ...). | The close exercise type remains a widely demanded, meaningful, useful and effective activity type. The impact of its deployment depends on the extent to which we can reduce the cost of content authoring (by reusing existing material, making it more generic and exchangeable, by researching new ways of generating content and questions from authentic materials in a computer assisted way, ...), and the cost of software development (by using appropriate design models, by reusing existing components and expertise, by working in open source, ...). | ||
== Project objective == | |||
The objective of this project was to analyze to what extent Mozilla Firefox extension technology would allow us to create a tool for generating interactive exercises on-the-fly (or at least as quickly as possible). The project focused on discrete prototyping on some crucial issues identified on the basis of a broad pedagogy-driven design. This design started from the following requirements. Clozefox should: | |||
* determine if a chosen web page contains enough text material; | |||
* identify the language of a particular text; | |||
* determine the difficulty level of a text; | |||
* recognize the word categories (and later even semantic fields) in the text for adequate selection of relevant gaps; | |||
* offer both fill-in, but also multiple choice exercises (with generated distractors); | |||
* offer interaction scenarios and meaningful feedback; | |||
* analyze errors and generate remedial exercises; | |||
* store learner data and teacher preferences. | |||
Teachers should be able to chose a relevant page and turn it into a rich and engaging exercise type, send it to their students or store it some repository. Learners should be able to choose their own text and generate their own exercises, but also retrieve exercises stored by their teachers. They will also be interested in seeing their results, in competing with other students and seeing an analysis of their progress. | |||