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Modeling the Acquisition of English: An Intelligent CALL Approach ⋆

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In this paper, we present a methodology for the development of a user model for CALL which captures various levels of language acquisition using individualized overlays supported with stereotypes. Our current focus is the empirical analysis of the order of written English grammatical structure acquisition in our learner population used to develop stereotype layers in our model.

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19716

    Lisa N. Michaud, Kathleen F. McCoy & Litza A. Stark

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  1. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Mathias Bauer

  2. University of Texas, 19015, Arlington, TX, 76019-0015, USA

    Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz

  3. Department of Computer Science ARIES, University of Saskatchewan, 1C101 Engineering Bldg., 57 Campus Dr., Saskatoon, SK, Canada, S7N 5A9

    Julita Vassileva

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Michaud, L.N., McCoy, K.F., Stark, L.A. (2001). Modeling the Acquisition of English: An Intelligent CALL Approach ⋆. In: Bauer, M., Gmytrasiewicz, P.J., Vassileva, J. (eds) User Modeling 2001. UM 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2109. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44566-8_2

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