Abstract:   Assessing L2 students’ argumentative writing quality requires attention not only to the presence of key components including thesis, evidence, counterargument, and rebuttal, but also to the depth of reasoning that connects these elements. Many EFL students can produce structural components yet struggle to justify their claims clearly. This study investigates whether AI-mediated dialogic practice via […]

The development of writing skills constitutes a core component of second language education, yet the assessment of learners’ written production remains a persistent challenge. Providing reliable scores and informative feedback is both time-intensive for teachers and problematic in terms of consistency in high-stakes examinations. Over the past decades, automated assessment systems have sought to address […]

We can probably all agree that interactional skills are important to any L2 learner of English but how do you go about identifying interactional competence in L2 speech? And how can you do this on an individual rather than shared basis? In this session we’ll outline some key points in relation to assessing interactional competence, […]