Third party funded individual grant
Acronym: AUWL
Start date : 01.07.2010
End date : 31.12.2011
AUWL (AUtomatic Web-based Learner feedback system) is a sequel of the C-AuDiT research project with digital publishing and FAU as partners. It aims at pronunciation and dialogue training for learners of English by presenting a dialogue of the day to language learners who should take over the role of the dialogue partners by, for instance, repeating (parroting) or shadowing the tutor's utterances; the learners' pronunciation is assessed and they are provided with automatically generated feedback. Besides novel methods for pronunciation assessment, the second focus of research is how to automatically give a user the most useful feedback, accounting for the special needs and problems of the user.