Language Learning with an Adaptive Coach and Life-Like Conversation
Partners
Hayes-Roth, B., Knodt, E., Maldonado, H.
Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) Courseware Showcase 2002
Foreign Language Online Workshop (FLOW) uses intelligent agent technology
to simulate two key elements of natural first language learning environments.
An "Adaptive Coach" guides each learner along an individually optimized path
to competency. The Coach continually monitors a learner's progress and
recommends interaction with strategically selected learning objects (e.g.,
vocabulary lists, grammar rules, exercises, games, quizzes, stories, cultural
materials, role-plays). Mark-up tools allow designers to include third-party
learning objects. "Life-like Conversation Partners" engage learners in authentic
conversation practice to assess, exercise, reinforce, and extend skills at
successive levels of competency. Authoring tools allow designers to create new
Conversation Partners.
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