AUTOMATED LANGUAGE-TUTORING METHOD

摘要

A language tutoring machine communicates with a user for teaching of a linguistic sub-system in a particular language. The language tutoring system comprises at least one computational module that functions to produce and comprehend utterances which employ the linguistic sub-system. The at least one computational module embodies two models which operationalizes the linguistic sub-system; a student model approximating a specified user's performance when producing and comprehending language involving the linguistic sub-system, and a teacher model which represents an archetypal configuration of the language- system. The teacher model and student model use the same formalisms, advantageously Incremental Recruitment Language (for conceptualising and interpreting) and Fluid Construction Grammar (for expression and parsing). This enables a single computational module to be operated, at different moments, to represent the teacher model and to represent the student model, and enables the same components to be used for language production and comprehension.