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| Workshop Report | PRINT | | Technology-Enhanced Language Learning |
Louvain-la-Neuve (BE), November 2007 - The Kaleidoscope research group Integrated Digital Language Learning (IDILL) recently held a two-day workshop called "Optimizing the Role of Language in Technology-Enhanced Learning" at the University of Louvain (Belgium). The workshop, which brought together a wide range of people involved in Technology-Enhanced Language Learning (TELL), also led to a road map for future research and collaboration, thereby helping to further integrate the field.
The workshop was attended by 35 participants—researchers, educators, multimedia software producers, and publishers—all of whom are involved in various aspects of TELL, most notably natural language processing or NLP; corpus linguistics; computer-assisted language learning; and lexicography.
Presentations were given by experts from around the world, including representatives from Europe, Asia, and the US, on such topics as computer-assisted pronunciation training, proofreading tools, language games, mobile language learning, and the future of the dictionary. Accompanying discussions fostered synergies between academics and industrial stakeholders, and by the workshop’s end, a roadmap for seven future areas of collaboration had been identified:
- NLP-based corpus-informed error detection and feedback;
- New mobile learning environments: communities of use, needs, and activities;
- Web aggregators and filters;
- Use of spoken learner corpora to improve speech recognition systems;
- Integration and exploitation of learner corpora within Learning Management Systems (LMS);
- Design and collection of multilingual multimodal pedagogically relevant CEF-related corpora;
- Automated design of new bilingual dictionaries.
A volume on Language in Technology-Enhanced Learning: Issues, Challenges and Prospects, edited by Sylviane Granger and Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, will be available in 2008.
To join IDILL or to receive a PDF version of the workshop abstracts, contact Sylviane Granger.
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