Speech-enabled card games for incidental vocabulary acquisition in a foreign language

Speech Communication

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1006-1023

  McGraw, Ian ^a   Yoshimoto, Brandon ^a   Seneff, Stephanie ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided vocabulary acquisition; Intelligent computer assisted language learning; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

CARD GAMES; COMPUTER AIDED VOCABULARY ACQUISITION; CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT; ERROR RATE; FLASH CARD; FOREIGN LANGUAGE; FUNCTION OF TIME; GENERIC PLATFORMS; INTELLIGENT COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING; LEARNING GAIN; LONG-TERM LEARNING; MANDARIN CHINESE; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; SPEECH TECHNOLOGY; THREE SYSTEMS; TRADITIONAL COMPUTERS; USER STUDY; VOCABULARY ACQUISITION; VOCABULARY LEARNING;

GAME THEORY; LINGUISTICS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; STUDENTS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 67650569252     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2009.04.011     Document Type: Article

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