Intelligent Web-based Interactive Language Learning IWiLL.

Intelligent Web-based Interactive Language Learning

Chin-Hwa Kuo( 郭精華 ) TamkangUniversity

David Wible

( 衛友賢 ) Tamkang University

Meng Chang Chen( 陳孟彰 )Academia

Sinica

Support

• Research Support: (since 2000)

大學追求卓越計劃 (MOE)

• Promotion: (since 2000)– MOE 資訊中心– 台北市教育局資訊室

Overview

傳統教育：傳遞模式Traditional Education: A Transmission Model

•Education is a matter of transmitting information

•Learning is a matter of storing that information

Traditional Education: A Transmission Model

Traditional Education: A Transmission Model傳統教育：傳遞模式

The Information Revolution in Education:

資訊融入教學

But seriously, the Transmission Model Persists even after…

The Information Revolution in Education:

資訊融入教學

Language Learning requires a different path

What language learners and teachers need:

•Interaction with each other

•Multiple modalities in a constant spiral

•First I read itread it.

•Interaction with the language

•Then I hear ithear it.

•Then I discuss itdiscuss it.

•Then I write about itwrite about it.

Then I read moreread more.And so on…

•Useful feedback

IWiLL Design and Functionality

A platform that creates and integrates shareable, reusable learning objects

so that teachers can:

1. createcreate a web-based learning flow

a. With interactive learning objects anywhere in the flow

b. With precise authentic English input and

c. With portable tools for giving input and feedback

2. shareshare these with each other

d. With power to track student progress and to respond

S1 S2 S4S3 S2 S4S3S1

In traditional classrooms

T1Learner Corpus

But, in a web-based learning environment….

Learner Corpus

Learner Corpus學習者語料庫

Analyze

Insights into the Learners

“Click here for help”

LANGUAGEHELP

Exploring vocabulary with the help ofNatural Language Processing

anda large corpus of English

(20,000,000 words)

problem vs question

Collocation Explorer: Interface

grapple…problem??

feeling

Intelligent Web-based Interactive Language Learning IWiLL.

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