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Heift, Trude – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2016
This commentary reconsiders the description and assessment of the design and implementation of "German Tutor," an Intelligent Language Tutoring System (ILTS) for learners of German as a foreign language, published in 2001. Based on our experience over the past 15 years with the design and real classroom use of an ILTS, we address a…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, German
Heift, Trude; Schulze, Mathias – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
This book provides the first comprehensive overview of theoretical issues, historical developments and current trends in ICALL (Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning). It assumes a basic familiarity with Second Language Acquisition (SLA) theory and teaching, CALL and linguistics. It is of interest to upper undergraduate and/or graduate…
Descriptors: College Students, Computational Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Heift, Trude – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2008
This article describes challenges and benefits of modeling learner variability in Computer-Assisted Language Learning. We discuss the learner model of "E-Tutor," a learner model that addresses learner variability by focusing on certain aspects and/or features of the learner's interlanguage. Moreover, we introduce the concept of phrase descriptors,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Systems Approach, Educational Technology, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
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Rimrott, Anne; Heift, Trude – CALICO Journal, 2005
This paper presents a study in which we examined spelling mistakes made by 34 learners of German in an online CALL exercise. We analyzed a total of 374 spelling errors that occurred in 341 words and subsequently classified them along four dimensions: (a) competence versus performance, (b) linguistic subsystem, (c) language influence, and (d)…
Descriptors: Spelling, Program Effectiveness, Error Correction, Computer Assisted Instruction