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• Automated content assessment and feedback for Finnish L2 learners in a picture description speaking task 

  Phan, Nhan; von Zansen, Anna; Kautonen, Maria; Voskoboinik, Ekaterina; Grosz, Tamas; Hilden, Raili; Kurimo, Mikko (International Speech Communication Association, 2024)

  We propose a framework to address several unsolved challenges in second language (L2) automatic speaking assessment (ASA) and feedback. The challenges include: 1. ASA of visual task completion, 2. automated content grading ...

• CaptainA self-study mobile app for practising speaking : task completion assessment and feedback with generative AI 

  Phan, Nhan; von Zansen, Anna; Kautonen, Maria; Grosz, Tamas; Kurimo, Mikko (International Speech Communication Association, 2024)

  We introduce the CaptainA mobile app, designed to meet the needs of second language (L2) learners engaged in self-study of Finnish, with potential applicability to other languages. Our app can provide automatic speaking ...

• The meaningfulness of two curriculum-based national tests of English as a foreign language 

  Hilden, Raili; Pulkkinen, Jonna; Rautopuro, Juhani (Association for Language Testing and Assessment of Australia and New Zealand, 2022)

  This paper addresses the aspect of the meaningfulness of a national assessment in English as a foreign language, applying the fairness framework proposed by Kunnan (2018). We compared students’ performance on two receptive ...

• Toisen ja vieraan kielen oppijat yleisissä kielitutkinnoissa 

  Tarnanen, Mirja; Mäntylä, Katja (Suomen soveltavan kielitieteen yhdistys ry, 2006)

  This article concerns learner profiles of test takers of English (foreign lg) and Finnish (second lg) language test. All learners were adults who took part in the National Language Certificate (NC) test that consists of ...

• New data, benchmark and baseline for L2 speaking assessment for low-resoure languages 

  Kurimo, Mikko; Getman, Yaroslav; Voskoboinik, Ekaterina; Al-Ghezi, Ragheb; Kallio, Heini; Kuronen, Mikko; von Zansen, Anna; Hilden, Raili; Kronholm, Sirkku; Huhta, Ari; Linden, Krister (International Speech Communication Association, 2023)

  The development of large multilingual speech models provides the possibility to construct high-quality speech technology even for low-resource languages. In this paper, we present the speech data of L2 learners of Finnish ...