Conceptualizing Student Models for ICALL

From Recording Linguistic Competence to Supporting Inferences about Language Acquisition in Context: Extending the Conceptualization of Student Models for Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning

Student models for Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) have largely focused on the acquisition of grammatical structures. In this paper, we motivate a broader perspective of student models for ICALL that incorporates insights from current research on second language acquisition and language testing. We argue for a student model that includes a representation of the learner’s...

Modelling the Student to Individualise Tutoring in a Web-Based ICALL

In this paper we describe the techniques used for student modelling in an adaptive Webbased Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) system. The system teaches the domain of the passive voice of the English language and is called Web Passive Voice Tutor (WebPVT). It dynamically models a student's progress in learning and is able to provide individualised tutoring and advice tailo...

Diagnosing Language Transfer in a Web-based ICALL that Self-Improves its Student Modeler

This paper describes a Web-based Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) system that may self-improve its student modeler while it acquires knowledge from its users. The ICALL system is called Web-PVT and is a Web-based language tutor for the domain of the passive voice of the English language. The student modeling approach of Web-PVT considers the issue of language transfer of ...

ICALL: Part II Student Modeling

An ICALL writing support system tunable to varying levels of learner initiative

ICALL systems that provide L2 learners with feedback on the grammatical quality of the sentences they are writing, should aim at a high level of relevance and acuracy, and be tunable to the level of grammatical knowledge and the learning strategy of the student. We present and demonstrate the prototype of a writing support system whose feedback is computed by a natural-language sentence generat...