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ERIC Number: ED565064
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2013-Sep
Pages: 7
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Developing Swedish Spelling Exercises on the ICALL Platform Lärka
Pijetlovic, Dijana; Volodina, Elena
Research-publishing.net, Paper presented at the 2013 EUROCALL Conference (Évora, Portugal, Sep 11-14, 2013)
In this project we developed web services on the ICALL platform Lärka for automatic generation of Swedish spelling exercises using Text-To-Speech (TTS) technology which allows L2 learners to train their spelling and listening individually at home. The spelling exercises contain five different linguistic levels, whereby the language learner has the choice between word, inflected word, phrase, sentence and performance based levels. The embedded avatar pronounces a random item of the desired level, which the user has to spell. Furthermore, the users have the possibility to train their own words for different linguistic levels. A result tracker containing a total and correct answer score keeps track of the language learner's performance. In order to analyse typical spelling errors and provide better feedback, misspellings are collected in a database. The usability of the spelling exercises, concerning the different linguistic levels and the quality of speech, has been evaluated through a questionnaire with 10 participants. [For full proceedings, see ED565044.]
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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