An intelligent tutoring system for deaf learners of written English

Michaud, Lisa N.; McCoy, Kathleen F.; Pennington, Christopher

doi:10.1145/354324.354348

Cited by 39 publications

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“…Some systems play the role of a teacher, instructor or coach (e.g., Lester, Towns and Fitzgerald, 1999; McCauley, Moxley and Van Velsor, 1998; Paiva and Machado, 1998), whereas others are dedicated to teaching English as a second language (Choi and Clark, 2006) or Spanish (Galluccio, 2008). However, very few systems address the needs of adult hearing‐impaired learners; current systems are either concerned with the tutoring aspects, such as the Colorado Literacy Virtual Tutor project (Wise, Cole and Van Vuuren et al., 2008) and the intelligent tutoring system to improve literacy (Michaud, McCoy and Pennington, 2000), or are designed to teach vocabulary and grammar, such as the system developed by Massaro and Bosseler (2006).…”

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An animated dictionary for hearing‐impaired students in Thailand

Wicha

Sharp

Sureephong

et al. 2012

Research in Spec Educ Needs

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As English increasingly becomes the international language, many ministerial and educational organisations have identified the need to improve the competence of Thai students in speaking English. While there is significant research devoted to developing software tools to support the teaching of English as a second language, they are mostly concerned with adult learners. This project focuses on addressing the need to improve the teaching of English as a second language to primary school children with hearing impairments. This paper presents the development of an educational software tool referred to as the Total Communication with Animation Dictionary (TCAD), which supports learners in the acquisition and retention of new English lexical knowledge and is based on the theoretical approaches of Total Communication and situated learning. A series of experiments was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of the TCAD in improving vocabulary acquisition and retention. Early results are promising with increased learner engagement and performance compared with traditional approaches.

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An animated dictionary for hearing‐impaired students in Thailand

Wicha

Sharp

Sureephong

et al. 2012

Research in Spec Educ Needs

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“…An error model, possibly personalized and updated on-line [8], can help prioritize and tailor the feedback.…”

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An analysis of grammatical errors in non-native speech in english

Lee

Seneff

2008

2008 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop

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While a wide variety of grammatical mistakes may be observed in the speech of non-native speakers, the types and frequencies of these mistakes are not random. Certain parts of speech, for example, have been shown to be especially problematic for Japanese learners of English [1]. Modelling these errors can potentially enhance the performance of computer-assisted language learning systems.This paper presents an automatic method to estimate an error model from a non-native English corpus, focusing on articles and prepositions. A fine-grained analysis is achieved by conditioning the errors on appropriate words in the context.

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“…There are also various studies on the development of support systems for hand language educations and communication skills [7], [8], [9]. However, they do not cope with the out-of-classroom lectures.…”

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A Laser Show Device Works in an Open Space for Hearing-Impaired Students

Takahashi

Namatame²,

Kusunoki³

et al. 2008

2008 Second Asia International Conference on Modelling &Amp; Simulation (AMS)

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The paper proposes a new pointing device for education of hearing-impaired students. The device: Big Fat Wand (BFW) is developed from a conventional laser show device, however, is modified to a small enough one to be used at out-of-classroom lectures. BFW is connected to a laptop PC, which provides character, symbol images, and/or animations with the device through a conventional one board microcomputer. This paper describes the educational objectives, basic principles, and preliminary experimental results of BFW. We conclude that BFW is a good gear to improve the methodology to educate and educate hearing-impaired students

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An intelligent tutoring system for deaf learners of written English

Cited by 39 publications

References 17 publications

An animated dictionary for hearing‐impaired students in Thailand

An animated dictionary for hearing‐impaired students in Thailand

An analysis of grammatical errors in non-native speech in english

A Laser Show Device Works in an Open Space for Hearing-Impaired Students

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