This paper presents two new corpus-based studies of feedback in the domain of teaching
Spanish as a foreign language, concentrating on the type and frequency of different …

Speech technology offers great promise in the field of automated literacy and reading tutors
for children. In such applications speech recognition can be used to track the reading …

Constructing a student model for language tutors is a challenging task. This paper describes
using knowledge tracing to construct a student model of reading proficiency and validates …

Abstract 1 In this paper we present recent advances in acoustic and language modeling that
improve recognition performance when children read out loud within digital books. First we …

This project targets using state-of-the-art in automatic speech recognition technology,
coupled with new work in predicting the relevant prosody ratings, to build an oral reading …

Abstract The Colorado Literacy Tutor (CLT) is a technology-based literacy program,
designed on the basis of cognitive theory and scientifically motivated reading research …

In this paper, a novel architecture is proposed for the speech recognition component in a
reading tutor. Decoding starts with an unconstrained phoneme recogniser that produces a …

(ONTEXT-FREE which may be efficiently constructed as context-free gram mars. The
domain-specific target language model may be built dynamically or “on-the-fly” based on the …

BACKGROUND It is Well recognized that reading is an important skill for all people,
including children, and that reading ability is a fun damental skill Without Which success in …

Educational research has observed widespread difficulties in scaling up technology that
succeeded in the pilot phase, difficulties ascribed to a range of factors (Becker, 2000; Zhao & …