Although Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) tools play an important role in the curriculum in many university translator training programmes, they are seldom used in the context of learning a language, as a good command of a language is needed before starting to translate. Since many institutions often have translator-training programmes as well as language-learning programmes within one depar...

The correct use of collocations is one of the most difficult tasks that the student faces when learning a second language, such that one of the goals of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is to develop programs that aim to identify collocation errors in learners’ writings and propose corrections. However, while statistical models currently used by most of these programs still manage to ...

Nowadays computers are increasingly being incorporated into school curriculums and serious games are occupying the educational games markets. This article addressed the integration of serious games as tools for learning and teaching English in Iranian schools to zero-beginner students. An experiment was concluded using Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) to investigate the effectiveness ...

Instructional grammar is often used in Computer-assisted Language Learning (CALL) and the grammatical error detection is an important feature. However, it is not an easy task in Japanese language. There is no delimiter separating consecutive words in Japanese sentences. Word segmentation is a process in which proper word boundaries are identified. Before syntactic parsing of a Japanese sentence...

As an application of NLP to computer-assisted language learning(CALL) , we propose a diagnostic processing of Japanese being able to detect errors and inappropriateness of sentences composed by the students in the given situation and the context of the exercise texts. Using LTAG(Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar) formalism, we have implemented a prototype of such a diagnostic parser as a compo...

This chapter intends to demonstrate how Applicative and Combinatory Categorial Grammar (ACCG) can be drawn on to design powerful software applications for the teaching of languages. To this end, the authors present some modules from their “pictographic translator,” software that performs syntactical analysis of sentences in natural language directly written by the user, and then dynamically dis...

In traditional foreign language learning programmes students are offered a tutor model characterised by slow, deliberate speech. This is insufficient to prepare them to cope with native, colloquial speech. By applying a timescale modification (TSM) algorithm to natural-speed, native speech, students have access to a more desirable, natural speech corpus which permits them to practise essential ...

The paper presents the impact of using computer-supported cooperative work tools in building educational environments and the facilities such tools bring to educational methodologies. It also shows the relation between this new technique and the learnercentered approach in education, a participative style of education in which the learner is actively involved in the learning process, while stre...

Modern language learning courses are no longer exclusively based on books or face-to-face lectures. More and more lessons make use of multimedia and personalized learning methods. Many of these are based on e-learning solutions. Learning via the Internet provides 7/24 services that require sizeable human resources. Therefore we witness a growing economic pressure to employ computer-assisted met...