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Foreign Language Tutoring and Learning Environment

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Foreign Language Learning

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NATO ASI F,volume 80))

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In the FLUENT project, we contemplate and implement immersion-style computational environments for learning a foreign language. Immersion environments encourage the student to use the new language, not analyze or translate it. To this end, the student and the tutor engage in two-way, two-medium communication, where the two media are linguistic and spatial. Our design strategy is to attempt to capture in computational form some of the most effective aspects of the immersive methods that human teachers use with beginning students. The paper provides a rationale for immersion, presents a prototype system, and goes on to delineate component requirements for a full-fledged system.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 22030, USA

    Raza Hashim

  2. Naval Research Laboratory, Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence, Washington, DC, 20375, USA

    Henry Hamburger

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  1. Advanced Technology, Vitro Corporation, Building 4, Room 1417H, 14000 Georgia Avenue, 20906-2972, Silver Spring, MD, USA

    Merryanna L. Swartz

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, Prince of Wales Road, EX4 4PT, Exeter, UK

    Masoud Yazdani

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Hamburger, H., Hashim, R. (1992). Foreign Language Tutoring and Learning Environment. In: Swartz, M.L., Yazdani, M. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Foreign Language Learning. NATO ASI Series, vol 80. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77202-3_13

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