A Spoken Translation Game for Second Language Learning

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 158, Issue , 2007, Pages 315-322

  Wang, Chao ^a   Seneff, Stephanie ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided language learning; educational games; human computer interaction; human language technology; machine translation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; COMPUTER GAMES; E-LEARNING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

COMPUTER-AIDED LANGUAGE LEARNING; EDUCATIONAL GAME; ENGLISH SENTENCES; FOREIGN LANGUAGE; HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES; LANGUAGE LEARNING; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; SECOND LANGUAGE; USER STUDY; WEB BASED;

SURVEYS;

EID: 85140098287     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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