SPRING: Speech and pronunciation improvement through games, for hispanic children

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Tewari, Anuj ^a   Goyal, Nitesh ^b   Chan, Matthew K ^a   Yau, Tina ^a   Canny, John ^a   Schroeder, Ulrik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Developed regions; Education; Educational technology; Games; Hispanic; Pronunciation

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPED REGIONS; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; GAMES; HISPANICS; PRONUNCIATION;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; EDUCATION;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84867468135     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2369220.2369265     Document Type: Conference Paper

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