ELSNET Summer School 2003
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The 11th ELSNET Summer School on Language and Speech
Communication
Topic: Language and Speech Technology in Language
Learning
Lille (France), Monday July 7 - Friday July 18, 2003
Organized by the University of Lille 3
Registration for the 11th ELSNET Summer School is now closed and the
School is over. For this school we had chosen a topic of great relevance
to researchers and developers in Europe and in other multilingual
environments: the use of language and speech technology in language
learning, both of spoken and of written language. The goal of this
workshop was to get young researchers on a track that will eventually
contribute to an important application area. The underlying vision (or
dream) was The automatic animated language tutor.
Audience and aims:
The school was mainly research and development oriented, and hence the
primary audience were researchers, developers and integrators who will
make our vision happen (rather than teachers who would use it). Both
technological and pedagogical aspects were taken into consideration
The aims were:
- to make the students familiar with the main principles and problems
of language learning/teaching
- to make them familiar with current best practice in computer assisted
language learning
- to make them familiar with the main challenges in computer assisted
language learning
Participants were expected to have a general computational background
and some familiarity with language or speech research and/or processing.
After completion of the summer school participants should be able to
function in teams aimed at designing or implementing tools, environments
or courses for Computer Assisted Language Learning (abbreviated CALL).
Course programme:
All programme and course details, including electronic versions of the
presentations by the lecturers can be found on the
ESS2003 site set up by the organisers of our school at
the University of Lille 3
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