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Embodied Tutors for Interaction Skills Simulation Training

—This paper describes intelligent virtual tutors for interaction skills training who can serve the roles of demonstrator, coach, trainer, mentor, and observer. These roles meet the needs demanded of tutors across stages of skill learning, stages that were derived from simulation-based individual training designed to meet international distribution standards. Lessons learned regarding elicitatio...

Introducing a curricular program culminating in a certificate for training peer tutors in medical education

AIM Student tutorials are now firmly anchored in medical education. However, to date there have only been isolated efforts to establish structured teacher training for peer tutors in medicine. To close this gap, a centralized tutor training program for students, culminating in an academic certificate, was implemented at Heidelberg University Medical School. The program also counts within the sc...

Feedback strategies of human and virtual tutors in pronunciation training

This paper presents a survey of language teachers’ and their students’ attitudes and practice concerning the use of corrective feedback in pronunciation training. The aim of the study is to identify feedback strategies that can be used successfully in a computer assisted pronunciation training system with a virtual tutor giving articulatory instructions and feedback. The study was carried out u...

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