It takes biking to learn: Physical activity improves learning a second language.

It takes biking to learn: Physical activity improves learning a second language.

Recent studies have shown that concurrent physical activity enhances learning a completely unfamiliar L2 vocabulary as compared to learning it in a static condition. In this paper we report a study whose aim is twofold: to test for possible positive effects of physical activity when L2 learning has already reached some level of proficiency, and to test whether the assumed better performance whe...

Bilingual Sign Language Dictionary To Learn The Second Sign Language Without Learning A Target Spoken Language

Emotive characters can make learning more productive and enjoyable: It takes two to learn to tango

In this paper we explore a new direction for pedagogical computer agents, also called computer characters, which we believe will maximize students’ learning gains and enjoyment. To the traditional scenario where students interact primarily with a single coach or tutor character on-screen, we introduce the addition of both a social, animate colearner, and the student’s own avatar character. Vari...

Natural Language Access to Data: It Takes Common Sense!

Commonsense reasoning proves to be an essential tool for natural-language access to data. In a deductive approach to this problem, language processing technology translates English queries into a first-order logical form, which is regarded as a conjecture to be established by a theorem prover. Subject domain knowledge is encoded in an axiomatic theory equipped with links to appropriate database...

Learning a Second Language

We present a system, called IMMIGRANT, which learns rules about the grammar of a second language from instructions. We explore the implications of this task on the representation of linguistic knowledge in a natural language understanding system. We conclude that the internal representation of linguistic knowledge used in IMMIGRANT, which is unification-based, is more amenable to language learn...