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Expert CALL: data-based versus knowledge-based interaction and feedback

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Jesús Soria
Affiliation:
University of Northumbria at Newcastle

Abstract

This article attempts to define Expert CALL, siting in between traditional data-based CALL and intelligent CALL (ICALL). It relies on the concapts of expert knowledge and expert interaction and feedback. These are explored in the context of inflexional morphology, using as reference the auther's own ‘The Spanish Verb’ program. An electic computational algorithm, rather than a fully-fledged linguistic for malism suffices to deliver a stable and reliable lingustic knowledge basa on which to base Expert CALL applications. A similar ‘intermediate technology’ approach to syntax may bypass current difficulties encountered by ICALL to deliver linguistic reliabity.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 1997

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