Most of commercially available Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) systems teaching phonetics require a student to judge on his own whether or not his pronunciation is correct. However he is not always capable of evaluating his own speech in an adequate way without help from the other party. In this article we suggest an approach to teaching foreign language pronunciation with the help of CALL system in which the process of evaluation of pronunciation and generation of suggestions for its correction is fully carried out by a computer program. We will present a general model of the effective Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) system as we see it. We also will consider the matter of feedback in CAPT systems, e.g. the response of the computer program on the students attempts to reproduce presented language material. We will outline some basic requirements to the effective feedback and discuss pros and cons of the feedback used in modern CAPT systems. At the end we will present a form of feedback that we consider to be effective.
Cite as: Degtyarev, M.A., Krinov, S.M., Marchuk, Y.N. (2004) Feedback design philosophy in the computer assisted language learning systems. Proc. 9th Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2004), 701-704
@inproceedings{degtyarev04_specom,
author={M. A. Degtyarev and S. M. Krinov and Yu. N. Marchuk},
title={{Feedback design philosophy in the computer assisted language learning systems}},
year=2004,
booktitle={Proc. 9th Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2004)},
pages={701--704}
}