Intelligent Tutoring Systems For Foreign Language Learning: The Bridge To International Communication (nato Asi Series (closed) / Nato Asi Subseries F: (closed))

Multilingual communication within the world community is important for economic, political, and cultural interactions. In a global environment where other languages are increasing in importance in addition to recognized intemational standards (i. e., English and French), language learning is becoming more important for improved international relations. At the same time, recent advances in instructional technology make the promise of building intelligent tutoring systems in advanced technology laboratories to teach these language skills a reality in the near future. These tutoring systems, therefore, may help us foster improved methods for acquiring languages. As active language learners and instructional technology researchers, we felt an international meeting with similar individuals was needed to discuss how such advanced tutoring systems are to be designed and implemented. We held such a meeting, the results of which are presented in this volume. The purpose of this Advanced Workshop, sponsored by the NATO Scientific Affairs Division, was to bring together a multidisciplinary group of researchers who were active in the development of intelligent tutoring systems for foreign language learning. Participants came from computer science, computational linguistics, psychology, and foreign language learning. Washington, D.C. was selected for the Workshop site since it is Merryanna's home city, the capitol of the United States, and an international, multilingual community in its own right. Masoud agreed to the location (with a promise to be shown the White House!) and graciously volunteered to coordinate activities from the European side. Front Matter....Pages I-X Introduction....Pages 1-6 Front Matter....Pages 7-7 STORYBOARD and Communicative Language Learning: Results of the Düsseldorf CALL Project....Pages 9-23 Learners’ Intuitions, Misconceptions and Errors....Pages 25-36 Front Matter....Pages 37-38 The Competition Model and Foreign Language Acquisition....Pages 39-50 Naive vs. Formal Grammars: A Case for Integration in the Design of a Foreign Language Tutor....Pages 51-64 A Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar for French and its Relevance to Language Teaching....Pages 65-87 WordNet and the Organization of Lexical Memory....Pages 89-102 Semantic Discourse Processing and Tutoring Systems for Second Language Learning....Pages 103-121 Front Matter....Pages 123-124 Conceptual Modelling in Error Analysis in Computer-Assisted Language Learning Systems....Pages 125-150 The Use of Explanation-Based Learning for Modelling Student Behavior in Foreign Language Tutoring....Pages 151-170 Nobile: Object-Based User Model Acquisition for Second Language Learning....Pages 171-190 Language Technology and Language Instruction: Computational Diagnosis of Word Level Errors....Pages 191-198 Front Matter....Pages 199-200 Foreign Language Tutoring and Learning Environment....Pages 201-218 Issues for Tutoring Knowledge in Foreign Language Intelligent Tutoring Systems....Pages 219-233 SWIM or Sink: The Problem of Communicating Thought....Pages 235-247 Invoking and exploring HELP in a decoupled taskdiscussion level environment for second language learning....Pages 249-259 Front Matter....Pages 261-262 Building an Intelligent Second Language Tutoring System from Whatever Bits you Happen to Have Lying Around....Pages 263-273 Drill and Practice for Turkish Grammar....Pages 275-291 WIZDOM A Multiple-Purpose Language Tutoring System Based on AI Techniques....Pages 293-305 Intelligent Automated Strategies of Teaching Foreign Language in Context....Pages 307-319 Front Matter....Pages 261-262 The Technological Promise of Second Language Intelligent Tutoring Systems in the 21st Century....Pages 321-335 Back Matter....Pages 336-352 This volume presents the proceedings of an international workshop held for amultidisciplinary group of researchers involved in intelligent tutoring systems research for language learning. The papers include work on: - Computational bases, tools, and environments for delivering language instruction, - Theoretical frameworks for developing language-based architectures and computational grammars, - Pedagogical practice, learner characteristics, and learner performance data, - Methods for representing tutoring and student modelling knowledge in the tutoring system, - Existing systems for language learning. The approach to developing intelligent tutoring systems that integrates natural language processing in a multimedia environment is new. This book presents readers with the state of the art in the field in a single volume, with contributors from computer science, linguistics, and psychology. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop "The Bridge to International Communication: Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Foreign Language Learning", held in Washington, DC, September 19-21, 1990