Tutoring Bilingual Students with an Automated Reading Tutor that Listens
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Tutoring Bilingual Students With an Automated Reading Tutor That Listens: Results of a Two-Month Pilot Study
A two-month pilot study comprised of 34 second through fourth grade Hispanic students from four bilingual education classrooms was conducted to compare the efficacy of the 2004 version of the Project Listen Reading Tutor against the standard practice of sustained silent reading (SSR). The Reading Tutor uses automated speech recognition to “listen” to children read aloud. It provides both spoken...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Educational Computing Research
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0735-6331,1541-4140
DOI: 10.2190/a007-367t-5474-8383