Preliminary Construction of Instant Qualitative Feedback System in Foreign Language Teaching

This paper reports on our attempt to construct a new type of feedback system on the basis of text mining method. The novelty of our attempt is to utilize text mining technology to produce instant feedback in the foreign language presentation course. Our system is designed to collect all the open-ended text data and derive high-quality information on their feedback from the collected text data. The system enables the students to reflect themselves on their own presentation in a deeper sense. The system is incorporated into the learning management system, Moodle, so that every learner can get access to the system under network environment. Starting with the review of another popular instant feedback using clicker, this paper describes how the system was constructed and carried out.