This post is for my talk at CELES2026 at Nara University of Education on June 20th titled “AI-based speaking assessment
of a short-term study abroad program.” I’ll share the presentation slides with references here when ready.
Abstract:
As part of a broader project examining the impact of a short-term overseas program, this study focused on spoken English performance measured by an AI-based speaking test. A study-abroad group (n=12) and a comparison group (n=9) completed pre- and post-tests assessing five components. Both groups improved, but did not differ clearly in their rate of improvement. Notably, among the components, fluency gains were observed only in the study-abroad group, suggesting that overseas experience may selectively benefit spoken communicative performance.