Developing an automated test of spoken Japanese

Yasunari Harada; Masanori Suzuki; Jared Bernstein

Developing an automated test of spoken Japanese

Yasunari Harada, Masanori Suzuki, Jared Bernstein

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages	291-298
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - 2004
Event	18th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2004 - Tokyo, Japan Duration: 2004 Dec 8 → 2004 Dec 10

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Conference	18th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2004
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Tokyo
Period	04/12/8 → 04/12/10

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Computer Science (miscellaneous)
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