From recording linguistic competence to supporting inferences about language acquisition in context

Computer Assisted Language Learning

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 323-338

  Amaral, Luiz ^a   Meurers, Detmar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activity model; Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning (ICALL); Intelligent tutoring systems (ITS); L1 transfer; Learner model; Natural language processing (NLP); Second language acquisition (SLA); Student model; Task appropriateness; Task strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349175079     PISSN: 09588221     EISSN: 17443210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09588220802343454     Document Type: Article

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