The digital instructor for literacy learning

The DigLIn project aims at providing concrete solutions for adult literacy students by developing and testing L2 literacy acquisition material in four different languages and by employing Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) to analyse the learner’s read speech output and provide feedback. We develop the technology, design sample exercises for different languages (Dutch, English, German and Finnish) and test them in literacy classes in adult education centres with adult L2 learners. Existing language learning material for low-educated second language learners is augmented with an ASR module capable of recognizing what the learners say, of diagnosing possible errors in reading aloud or pronunciation and of providing practice and feedback in learning to read aloud in the L2.