Helping children learn vocabulary during computer-assisted oral reading

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 147-163

  Aist, Gregory ^a  

^a Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Intelligent tutoring systems; Reading; Spoken dialog systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345358044     PISSN: 14364522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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