This paper investigates which features would be the best to include in a listening comprehension game for European Portuguese. The goal is to develop a method to motivate non-native speakers of Portuguese to engage themselves in activities intended to develop their listening comprehension skills. The approach adopted herein consisted in providing students with several sets of exercises, each set with some slight variations over the previous one. Finally, a questionnaire was presented to the students with the intent of receiving feedback about the most adequate functionalities. The paper also explores students main difficulties with the language so as to define learning models able to adapt the difficulty level of the exercises to each individual’s language proficiency level.
Index Terms. CALL, Portuguese, Listening Comprehension, Games
Cite as: Correia, R., Pellegrini, T., Eskenazi, M., Trancoso, I., Baptista, J., Mamede, N. (2011) Listening comprehension games for portuguese: exploring the best features. Proc. Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2011), 5-8
@inproceedings{correia11_slate,
author={Rui Correia and Thomas Pellegrini and Maxine Eskenazi and Isabel Trancoso and Jorge Baptista and Nuno Mamede},
title={{Listening comprehension games for portuguese: exploring the best features}},
year=2011,
booktitle={Proc. Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2011)},
pages={5--8}
}