This chapter reviews research on human tutoring, a form of one-on-one instruction between
a tutor and a tutee. In most cases the tutor is knowledgeable about the subject matter and …

How do people learn in subject areas, such as reading, writing, mathematics, science, and
history, and how can we help people learn, using instructional methods such as feedback …

In this work, we focus on automatically recognizing social conversational strate-gies that in
human conversation con-tribute to building, maintaining or some-times destroying a budding …

This study investigated how computer agents' language style affects summary writing in an
Intelligent Tutoring System, called CSAL AutoTutor. Participants interacted with two …

This study investigated the impact of pedagogical agents' conversational formality on
learning and engagement in a trialog-based intelligent tutoring system (ITS). Participants …

This study investigated the impact of conversational agent formality on the quality of
summaries and formality of written summaries during the training session and on posttest in …

Advanced technologies such as natural language processing and machine learning,
conversational agents, intelligent tutoring systems (ITS s), and epistemic games have been …

With a teachable agent system and a set of linguistically diverse comparison prototypes, we
explore questions of prociency with and preference for local language agents in two sites in …

Human tutors have made use of natural language during instruction for all of recorded
history, with many differences in the manner of delivery (didactic, Socratic, peer interaction …

This research investigates the broad capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven
Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) within the context of online language education, with a …