Abstract
The present proposal advocates for the use of Spaced Repetition System (SRS) in Computer-Assisted Language Training as a particular applicable cognitive approach for a personalised language learning system in a Higher Education virtual environment. To this end, the recently developed online SMCP-Training tool has been modelled to provide a sequenced learning scenario in a virtual language learning environment. This is a novel flexible and integrated computer-assisted tool that has been primarily conceived as a means to provide (extra-) practice in an autonomous learning context where the learner –undergraduate navigation students, seafarers and land-based marine operators- can essentially be instructed across different stages in the correct use of the IMO’s Standard Marine Communication Phrases (SMCP), the controlled maritime language. The online tool basically caters for self-training and personalised learning by automatising the recalling of the patterns which have been underscored in the trainees’ saved previous attempts. An algorithm to prioritise repetition of tests, based on data crossing of the learners’ opinion on their performance and the actual level of accuracy obtained in the test performance has been developed. The aim of this study is to explore the impact of Spaced Repetition (learning) System (SRS) on an undergraduate level group of Spanish Maritime Navigation and Transport students in the fourth year after testing the learners’ information retaining capabilities at pre-determined sequenced learning spans. The cycle sequence of this study is completed after an analysis and a discussion of the results.
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The experiment typology reported is a proof of concept as we attempt to verify across a demonstration (pilot trial) the feasibility of the present proposal and its potentialities.
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Official website is at https://www.duolingo.com. [Accessed 20/04/2017].
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Official website is at http://www.pimsleur.com. [Accessed 18/07/2017].
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It refers to learning analytics, which is a collection, analysis and reporting of large datasets relating to learners and their context.
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The IMO SMCP was adopted by the Assembly in November 2001 as resolution A.918(22). As described in IMO SMCP’s manual introduction the phrases were “drafted intentionally in a simplified version of maritime English in order to reduce grammatical, lexical and idiomatic varieties to a tolerable minimum, using standardized structures for the sake of its function aspects, i.e. reducing misunderstanding in safety-related verbal communications, thereby endeavouring to reflect present maritime English language usage on board vessels and in ship-to-shore/ship-to-ship communications. (…) [Its instruction] should be implemented through appropriate modern language teaching methods” (IMO 2001, 3).
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This work was supported by the Andalusian Government under the programme for Research and Innovation in Higher Education (grants 201500054563-tra and sol-201600064916-tra). Thanks to Marina Piña Salva for supporting the development of SMCP-Training software.
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Losey-León, MA., Balderas, A. (2019). Cognitive Approach to Adaptive Testing Implementation in Virtual Maritime English Language Learning Environment Based on a Spaced Repetition System. In: Carrió-Pastor, M.L. (eds) Teaching Language and Teaching Literature in Virtual Environments. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1358-5_10
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