Native Language and Dialect

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Naismith et al. (2018) pdf

  • Model that measures L2 learners’ lexical sophistication with the frequency list based on the native speaker corpora
  • Arabic-speaking learners are rated systematically lower across all levels of human-assessed English proficiency than speakers of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish
  • Level 5 Arabic-speaking learners are inaccurately evaluated to have similar level of lexical sophistication as Level 4 learners from China, Japan, Korean and Spain
  • When used on the ETS corpus, essays by Japanese-speaking learners with higher human-rated lexical sophistication are rated significantly lower in lexical sophistication than Arabic, Japanese, Korean and Spanish peers


Loukina et al. (2019) pdf

  • Models providing automated speech scores on English language proficiency assessment
  • L1-specific model trained on the speaker’s native language was the least fair, especially for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean speakers, but not for German speakers
  • All models (Baseline, Fair feature subset, L1-specific) performed worse for Japanese speakers


Rzepka et al. (2022) pdf

  • Models predicting whether student will quit spelling learning activity without completing
  • Multiple algorithms have slightly better false positive rates for second-language speakers than native speakers, but equivalent performance on multiple other metrics.


Sha et al. (2021) pdf

  • Models predicting a MOOC discussion forum post is content-relevant or content-irrelevant
  • MOOCs taught in English
  • ABROCA varied from 0.03 to 0.08 for non-native speakers of English versus native speakers
  • Balancing the size of each group in the training set reduced ABROCA