Abstract
Discourse style and situational viewpoint are key elements of an immersion-style language tutor. In order to achieve conversational continuity, such a system needs to maintain a model of goals, actions and states in the microworld along with tools to manage discourse. The discourse management tools include various dialog schemas composed of interaction types. These schemas guide the communication protocol between the student and the tutor. Another tool is the type of view that one takes of what occurs in the microworld. The various view types in our taxonomy provide a mechanism for generating comments on those aspects of the microworld that are relevant while using a particular interaction type. In sum, we have devised a variety of interaction types and views and shown how to use them in the construction of a bimodal, bidirectional communication system for immersive foreign language learning.
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Hamburger, H. and Maney, T. (1991) Twofold Continuity in Immersive Language Learning. J. Computer-Assisted Language Learning 4,2: 81–92.
Hamburger, H. and Hashim, R. (1992) Foreign langauge tutoring and learning system. In M. Swartz and M. Yazdani (Eds.), Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Foreign Language Learning. New York: Springer-Verlag.
Richards, J.C. and Rodgers, T.S. (1986) Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching: A Description and Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge Language Teaching Library.
Grosz, B. and Sidner, C. (1987) Attention, intentions, and structure of discourse. Computational Linguistics 12,3: 175–204.
Wilensky, R. (1983) Planning and Understanding: A Computational Approach to Human Reasoning. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley.
Novick, D. (1988) Doctoral Dissertation, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.
Felshin, S. (1991) The Lingo Manual. The Athena Language Learning Project, MIT.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1992 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Hashim, R., Hamburger, H. (1992). Discourse style and situation viewpoint for a conversational language tutor. In: Tomek, I. (eds) Computer Assisted Learning. ICCAL 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 602. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55578-1_74
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55578-1_74
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-55578-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-47221-6
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive