This chapter presents an overview of synchronous computer mediated communication (SCMC) platforms and identifies their hardware requirements. SurveyMonkey, an online survey tool, is featured as an example of how access to international communities of language teachers can be tapped to appraise the merits of chat tools for teaching and learning. Their review finds that Messengers are most widely...

Intelligent computer-assisted language learning (ICALL) systems give feedback on grammatical errors based on the syntactic analysis of an utterance. However, parsing a language learner sentence in isolation can result in multiple interpretations, which even humans may not be able to resolve. For deriving a helpful error diagnosis, an interpretation that is consistent with the intended meaning i...

To solve a bottleneck problem of authoring a finite state automaton (FSA)-based ICALL system capable of automatically correcting free format English composition sentences, we have developed a new template-template scheme to simplify and streamline the laborintensive input processes of the network of possible answers. This is achieved by exploiting a simple rule-based approach to the template co...

This paper describes the error recognition module of an interactive ICALL system with a special focus on the underlying grammar theory. Using the system, language learners are invited to produce complete written sentences in small question-answer dialogs with the computer. This setting challenges learners to use language interactively in order to enhance the development of communicative compete...

This article presents an environment developed for Learner Corpus Research and Error Analysis which makes it possible to deal with language errors from different points of view and with several aims. In the field of Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning (ICALL), our objective is to gain a better understanding of the language learning process. In the field of Natural Language Processin...

Computer-assisted language learning is by now so common around the world as to be something of a default, and the teaching of the indigenous languages of the Americas is already benefiting from the new technology. Intelligent computer-assisted language learning relies on software that has relatively sophisticated models of the target language and/or the learner. An example is the use of a progr...

In this paper we describe Web Passive Voice Tutor (Web PVT), an adaptive web-based Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) program that is aimed at teaching non-native speakers the passive voice of the English language. The design of the system has been largely based on the results of an empirical study that was conducted at schools with the collaboration of human teachers. Web ...

The potential of sentence generators as engines in Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning and teaching (ICALL) software has hardly been explored. We sketch the prototype of COMPASS, a system that supports integrated writing and grammar curricula for 10 to 14 year old elementary or secondary schoolers. The system enables firstor second-language teachers to design controlled writing exer...

The development of our ICALL system is supported by the Incomplete Grammar approach, which allows us to model the learner with a cognitively based system of hypotheses held by the Tutor module. An Incomplete Grammar model of a learner’s language performance includes Constituent Productions PC, Constituent Production Errors PCE , Lexical Productions PCL and Lexical Production Errors PLE in the l...