OVERVIEW OF COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING FOR EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE AT L2F

Thomas Pellegrini, Wang Ling, André Silva, Rui Correia, Isabel Trancoso, Jorge Baptista, Nuno Mamede

2012

Abstract

In this paper, we give an overview of our research in Computer-Assisted Language Learning for European Portuguese, to show how our long-time experience in spoken language processing allowed to propose multimedia documents as learning material. Beside a reading activity module that provides learners with individualized readings from a digital libray, Web-based serious game were introduced to cover aspects of listening, reading, and writing skills. One fundamental aspect of all our tools remains in the fully-automatic generation of the curriculum. This is very valuable for teachers, saving them time in search for motivating materials of appropriate quality, level and topic. A Web portal was recently created to make all our tools publicly available at http://call.l2f.inesc-id.pt/reap.public.

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Pellegrini T., Ling W., Silva A., Correia R., Trancoso I., Baptista J. and Mamede N. (2012). OVERVIEW OF COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING FOR EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE AT L2F . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: SGoCSL, (CSEDU 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-07-5, pages 538-543. DOI: 10.5220/0003921505380543


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@conference{sgocsl12,
author={Thomas Pellegrini and Wang Ling and André Silva and Rui Correia and Isabel Trancoso and Jorge Baptista and Nuno Mamede},
title={OVERVIEW OF COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING FOR EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE AT L2F},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: SGoCSL, (CSEDU 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={538-543},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003921505380543},
isbn={978-989-8565-07-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: SGoCSL, (CSEDU 2012)
TI - OVERVIEW OF COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING FOR EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE AT L2F
SN - 978-989-8565-07-5
AU - Pellegrini T.
AU - Ling W.
AU - Silva A.
AU - Correia R.
AU - Trancoso I.
AU - Baptista J.
AU - Mamede N.
PY - 2012
SP - 538
EP - 543
DO - 10.5220/0003921505380543