Ya Xiao|Jie Hu
Assessment of Optimal Pedagogical Factors for Canadian ESL Learners’ Reading Literacy Through Artificial Intelligence Algorithms
Zhejiang University|Zhejiang University
current study explored effective pedagogical factors distinguish highachieving lowachieving esl english second language primary school learners reading literacy canada total 203 samples 167 highachieving learners 36 lowachieving learners 128 primary schools 4th grade drawn public database progress international reading literacy study pirls 2016 benchmark largescale assessments reading literacy targeting fourthgrade students first time eslrelated research study applied artificial intelligence approach support vector machine svm concurrently analyze 41 pedagogical factors associated reading materials classroom organization reading strategies inclass reading activities postreading activities overall 41 factors collectively distinguished highachieving readers lowachieving readers high accuracy score 0793 via svm 41 factors ranked according contribution svm model svmbased recursive feature elimination svmrfe eventually optimal factor set selected svmrfe cross validation contained 10 effective pedagogical factors centered reading materials reading strategies inclass reading activities fourthgrade highachieving esl learners reading literacy suggestions based solid data analysis would facilitate infrastructural pedagogical improvements esl reading education