An Interactive Interpretation Game for Learning Chinese

Speech and Language Technology in Education, SLaTE 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 41-44

  Chao, Chih Yu ^a   Seneff, Stephanie ^a   Wang, Chao ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

computer assisted language learning; dialogue system; second language acquisition; translation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAMES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH PROCESSING; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; GAME SYSTEM; GAMES FOR LEARNING; PILOT STUDIES; SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; TARGET LANGUAGE; TRANSLATION;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 84863263848     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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