  Knowing how to use words appropriately has been a key to improving language
proficiency. Previous studies typically discuss how students learn receptively
to select the correct candidate from a set of confusing words in the
fill-in-the-blank task where specific context is given. In this paper, we go
one step further, assisting students to learn to use confusing words
appropriately in a productive task: sentence translation. We leverage the
GiveMeExample system, which suggests example sentences for each confusing word,
to achieve this goal. In this study, students learn to differentiate the
confusing words by reading the example sentences, and then choose the
appropriate word(s) to complete the sentence translation task. Results show
students made substantial progress in terms of sentence structure. In addition,
highly proficient students better managed to learn confusing words. In view of
the influence of the first language on learners, we further propose an
effective approach to improve the quality of the suggested sentences.
