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Computers in Education | 2010

Ergonomics factors in English as a foreign language testing: The case of PLEVALEX

Jesús García Laborda; Teresa Magal-Royo; Jose Macario de Siqueira Rocha; Miguel Fernández Álvarez

Although much has been said about ergonomics in interface and in computer tools and interface design, very few articles in major journals have addressed this topic in relation to language testing. This article describes an experiment carried out at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, in which 27 Media and Communication students provided support to design and experiment an internet based oral and written English as a foreign language test platform called PLEVALEX (Garcia Laborda, 2007b). These students then responded to a questionnaire about their feelings, acquired experience and ergonomics based on their results in both development stages. According to their opinions, language test interfaces are different from those of other e-learning platforms and websites. These differences have been previously mentioned by authors such as Fulcher (2003) or Garcia Laborda and Magal Royo (2007). This research concludes that the features described by Garcia Laborda and Magal Royo which are applied to the PLEVALEX platform, although tending to simplify interfaces, are to be met if students are to be tested in their knowledge of English as a foreign language as opposed to being tested on their skills and performance as computer users. The findings of this paper have valuable implications for the scientific community, given that more and more standardized high-stakes language tests are beginning to use internet and computer based versions (Garcia Laborda, 2007a).


international conference on interactive collaborative learning | 2011

Common problems of mobile applications for foreign language testing

Jesús García Laborda; Teresa Magal-Royo; José Luis Giménez López

As the use of mobile learning educational applications has become more common anywhere in the world, new concerns have appeared in the classroom, human interaction in software engineering and ergonomics. New tests of foreign languages for a number of purposes have become more and more common recently. However, studies interrelating language tests and ergonomics have lagged behind to the point that there is a clear lack of balance between software for m-learning and the capacities of modern equipment. This paper is based on the experience acquired through the use of mobile phones emulators for language testing. The paper does not deal with the experimental phase itself but suggests the constraints found in such experimentation from a descriptive perspective.


Archive | 2017

Multimodal Interactivity in Foreign Language Testing

Teresa Magal-Royo; Jesús García Laborda

Multimodality in interactive digital environments for second language acquisition testing has been begun to be used only very lately. Some of the multimodality concepts have been recently developed in various research projects. Research into the automation of online university entrance exams has been prompted by the need to efficiently manage online tests and handle the task of exam marking semi-automatically. At the same time, we have addressed the use of multi-platform and/or multi-browser applications to handle the technical and functional validation of accessibility and so enable universal access. The application of multi-modularity to methods of navigation during the examination is possible in mobile devices that enable simultaneous interaction when students input data. This chapter aims to demonstrate the technical feasibility of the implementation process for an examination in regard to the technological and formal variables of navigation in the exam. These variables are currently being handled in mobile devices and the result is a further advancement in the process of Computer Aided Language Learning, CALL. This paper presents the multimodal approach has been taken into account in the development of an online prototype which validates the functional and technical assumptions adapted to university entrance exams for foreign languages.


International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (ijim) | 2018

Standardization of Design Interfaces Applied to Language Test on-line through Ubiquitous Devices

Teresa Magal-Royo; Jesús García-Laborda

Normalization of design rules and guidelines in English language tests to help future instructors and assessment developers in the field of examination of English as a foreign language. have not been defined sufficiently until present days In fact, there are several experiences and investigations related to the user’s experiences in the handling of computer exams for learning a foreign language that have been evaluated in, for and through different experimental interactive digital environments. These interactive scenarios oriented to the user experience, UX in the ubiquitous devices, have allowed to learn technological, functional and design aspects that will be necessary in the future to establish the standards in design and vision for language tests in its online environment. The lack of effective and realistic regulations has become a functional requirement for the progress of research on digital environments adapted to the needs of competence assessment and more specifically, to the learning environment of foreign language (FL). Proliferation of on-line tests of language certification of ls with a structural corpus depends on where there are not really functional and formal guidelines that allow evaluating their quality and adequacy from the experience of the user and according to the level of learning competences acquired in a foreign language. This article describes aspects of design that should be taken into account when defining an online test of languages in a ubiquitous device that will mark verifiable guidelines of a general nature and affect the evaluation task in the formation of languages that need to be checked and evaluated periodically. Keywords—m-learning, English as a Foreign Language, Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL), User Experience (UX), normalization, online test, design iJIM ‒ Vol. 12, No. 4, 2018 21 Paper—Standardization of Design Interfaces Applied to Language Test on-line through Ubiquitous Devi...


European scientific journal | 2015

Relación ser Humano-Naturaleza: Debatiendo el desarrollo sostenible desde la Filosofía de la ciencia

Diosey Ramón Lugo-Morin; Larry M. Frolich; Teresa Magal-Royo

In the short stories of Guy de Maupassant, there is a clear difference between representation of a ‘madman’ and a ‘madwoman’. Madwoman is silent with no words. She is described and defined by men. Being a madwoman, she is drawn into deepest marginality. Maupassantian man, on the other hand, has the privilege to speak. He speaks the language of madness. In this article, we will explore the role of ‘other’. Madman is continuously tortured by the presence of invisible ‘other’ in his life. This ‘other’ does not exist in the life of a madwoman. Also, in the short stories of Maupassant, water plays an important part. Here, it is interessesting to see the relation between water and madness. The absence or disappearance of water announces madness in the life of a madman. On the other hand, the presence of water has a relieving effect on a madwoman. In the end, we will try to find out the causes of madness of maupassantian madwoman and madman. Woman is considered the cause of madness of a madman but a madwoman is herself responsible for her madness and her pathethic life.


Archive | 2011

Virtual Moving Sound Source Localization through Headphones

Larisa Dunai; Guillermo Peris-Fajarnés; Teresa Magal-Royo; Beatriz Defez; Víctor Manuel Santiago Praderas

Humans are able to detect, identify and localize the sound source around them, to roughly estimate the direction and distance of the sound source, the static or moving sounds and the presence of an obstacle or a wall [Fay and Popper, 2005]. Sound source localization and the importance of acoustical cues, has been studied during many years [Brungart et al., 1999]. Lord Rayleigh in his “duplex theory” presented the foundations of the modern research on sound localization [Stutt, 1907], introducing the basic mechanisms of localization. Blauert defined the localization as “the law or rule by which the location of an auditory event (e.g., its direction and distance) is related to a specific attribute or attributes of a sound event” [Blauert, 1997]. A great contribution on sound localization plays the acoustical cues, Interaural Time Difference ITD and Interaural Level Diference ILD, torso and pinnae (Brungart et al., 1999), [Bruce, 1959]. [Kim et al., 2001] confirm that the Head Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) which represent the transfer characteristics of the sound source in a free field to the listener external ear [Blauert, 1997]), are crucial for sound source localization. An important role in the human life plays the moving sound localization [Al’tman et al., 2005]. In the case of a moving source, changes in the sound properties appear due to the influence of the sound source speed or due to the speed of the used program for sound emission. Several research have been done on static sound localization using headphones [Wenzel et al., 1993], [Blauert, 1997] but few for moving sound source localization. It is well known that on localization via headphones, the sounds are localized inside the head [Junius et al., 2007], known as “lateralization”. Previous studies [Hartmann and Wittenberg, 1996] in their research on sound localization, showed that sound externalization via headphones can be achieved using individual HRTFs, which help listeners to localize the sound out in space [Kulkani et al., 1998], [Versenyi, 2007]. Great results have been achieved with the individual HRTFs, which are artificially generated and measured on a dummy head or taken from another listener. Due to those HRTFs, the convolved sounds are localized as real sounds [Kistler et al., 1996], [Wenzel, 1992]. This chapter presents several experiments on sound source localization. Two experiments are developed using monaural clicks in order to verify the influence of the Inter-click interval on sound localization accuracy. In the first of these experiments [Dunai et al., 2009] the localization of the position of a single sound and a train of sounds was carried out for different inter-click intervals (ICIs). The


International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (ijim) | 2007

Evaluation Methods on Usability of M-Learning Environments

Teresa Magal-Royo; Guillermo Peris-Fajarnés; I. Tortajada Montañana; B. Defez Garcia


Egitim Arastirmalari-eurasian Journal of Educational Research | 2010

Teachers' trialing procedures for computer assisted language testing implementation

Jesús García Laborda; Teresa Magal-Royo; Emilia V. Enríquez Carrasco


international conference on interactive collaborative learning | 2011

Multimodal application for foreign language teaching

Teresa Magal-Royo; José Luis Giménez-López; Blas Pairy; Jesús García-Laborda; Jimena González Del Río


Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas | 2011

EL NOMBRE DE MARCA: INTERRELACIÓN DE FACTORES LINGÜISTICOS Y CORPORATIVOS

Jimena Gonzalez-del-Rio; Olga Ampuero-Canellas; Begoña Jorda-Albiñana; Teresa Magal-Royo

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Begoña Jorda-Albiñana

Polytechnic University of Valencia

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Jimena Gonzalez-del-Rio

Polytechnic University of Valencia

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José Luis Giménez López

Polytechnic University of Valencia

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José Luis Giménez-López

Polytechnic University of Valencia

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Olga Ampuero-Canellas

Polytechnic University of Valencia

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Guillermo Peris-Fajarnés

Polytechnic University of Valencia

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J.L. Gimenez-López

Polytechnic University of Valencia

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B. Jorda Albiñana

Polytechnic University of Valencia

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