Data mining for adaptive learning sequence in English language instruction

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 7681-7686

  Wang, Ya huei ^a   Tseng, Ming Hseng ^a   Liao, Hung Chang ^a  

^a CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adaptive system analysis; Data mining; Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL)

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; DATA MINING; DECISION THEORY; DECISION TREES; EDUCATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LINGUISTICS; OPTIMIZATION; STUDENTS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TEACHING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ADAPTIVE LEARNING; ADAPTIVE SYSTEM ANALYSIS; COGNITIVE STYLES; DECISION-TREE ALGORITHMS; ENGLISH LANGUAGES; LEARNING OUTCOMES; LEARNING PROCESS; LEARNING SEQUENCES; LEARNING STYLES; PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS; PERSONALITY TYPES; STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS; TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (TESL);

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 60249100506     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.09.008     Document Type: Article

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