Question Generation for Language Learning: From ensuring texts are read to supporting learning

Abstract

In Foreign Language Teaching and Learning (FLTL), questions are systematically used to assess the learner's understanding of a text. Computational linguistic (CL) approaches have been developed to generate such questions automatically given a text (e.g., In this paper, we want to broaden the perspective on the different functions questions can play in FLTL and discuss how automatic question generation can support the different uses.