Classroom success of an intelligent tutoring system for lexical practice and reading comprehension

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 829-832

  Heilman, Michael ^a   Collins Thompson, Kevyn ^a   Callan, Jamie ^a   Eskenazi, Maxine ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer assisted language learning; Intelligent tutoring systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION COMPUTING;

CLASSROOM SETTINGS; COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING; ENGLISH LANGUAGES; INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM; READING COMPREHENSION; UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH;

TEACHING;

EID: 44949111633     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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