Diagnosing meaning errors in short answers to reading comprehension questions
Stacey M. Bailey, Detmar Meurers · 2008
A common focus of systems in Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) is to provide immediate feedback to language learners working on exercises. Most of this research has focused on providing feedback on the form of the learner input. Foreign language practice and second language acquisition research, on the other hand, emphasizes the importance of exercises that require the learner to manipulate meaning.