Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Foreign language teachers in dialogue
- Intracultural dialogue during intercultural activities
- The philosophical foundations for developing Intercultural Communicative Competence: The role of dialogue
- Parent-child dyads: Fostering or inhibiting second language learning?
- Situated identities and interaction learning
- The role of critical reading in promoting dialogic interaction
- The dialogic nature of the think aloud study investigating reading
- Before they can teach they must talk: On some aspects of human-computer interaction
- Dialoguing in curriculum development: On designing Information and Communication Technology training in modern philology setting
- A Sage on the stage or a Guide on the side? On student-teacher dialogue in the Web-enhanced writing classroom at the tertiary level
- Foreign language anxiety in test and classroom situation
Before they can teach they must talk: On some aspects of human-computer interaction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Foreign language teachers in dialogue
- Intracultural dialogue during intercultural activities
- The philosophical foundations for developing Intercultural Communicative Competence: The role of dialogue
- Parent-child dyads: Fostering or inhibiting second language learning?
- Situated identities and interaction learning
- The role of critical reading in promoting dialogic interaction
- The dialogic nature of the think aloud study investigating reading
- Before they can teach they must talk: On some aspects of human-computer interaction
- Dialoguing in curriculum development: On designing Information and Communication Technology training in modern philology setting
- A Sage on the stage or a Guide on the side? On student-teacher dialogue in the Web-enhanced writing classroom at the tertiary level
- Foreign language anxiety in test and classroom situation
Summary
Introduction
While promising technological advances have been made in the areas of speech recognition, generation and understanding, developing usable dialogue systems is still difficult as researchers find themselves in need for models of spoken discourse. The models should cover such phenomena as entrainment, turn-taking or dynamic adaptation by providing insight into both human-human and human-machine interaction and their similarities and differences. The work in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) aids the creation of human-machine interfaces, allowing for spoken communication which is as close as possible to human-human interaction in natural language. The systems developed are designed to assist people with little or no technological insight: a doctor in his medical decisions, a tourist in a foreign city, a customer taken through a display of products, or a machine operator at his place of work. They are also designed to aid a learner in their attempts at mastering a foreign language by way of interaction with a virtual agent. Besides natural language understanding and generation, such agents are being endowed today with other human-like features in an attempt to make them resemble communication between humans as closely as possible. If systems like these are to be viable, they must be able to process spoken language in its many layers – phonetic, semantic and pragmatic – and, at the same time, perform some useful tasks like giving advice, providing information or teaching a language.
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- Dialogue in Foreign Language Education , pp. 99 - 110Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2009