@InProceedings{zalmout-saddiki-habash:2016:NLPTEA2016,
  author    = {Zalmout, Nasser  and  Saddiki, Hind  and  Habash, Nizar},
  title     = {Analysis of Foreign Language Teaching Methods: An Automatic Readability Approach},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications (NLPTEA2016)},
  month     = {December},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Osaka, Japan},
  publisher = {The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee},
  pages     = {122--130},
  abstract  = {Much research in education has been done on the study of different language
	teaching methods. However, there has been little investigation using
	computational analysis to compare such methods in terms of readability or
	complexity progression. In this paper, we make use of existing readability
	scoring techniques and our own classifiers to analyze the textbooks used in two
	very different teaching methods for English as a Second Language -- the
	grammar-based and the communicative methods. Our analysis indicates that the
	grammar-based curriculum shows a more coherent readability progression compared
	to the communicative curriculum. This finding corroborates with the
	expectations about the differences between these two methods and validates our
	approach’s value in comparing different teaching methods quantitatively.},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/W16-4916}
}