Computers play a crucial and rapidly evolving role in education, particularly in the area of
language learning. Far from being a tool mimicking a textbook or teacher, Computer …

This research project undertook a review and synthesis of previous research on the
effectiveness of feedback for individual writing development. The work plan was divided into …

Natural language processing (NLP) is concerned with the automated processing of human
language. It addresses the analysis and generation of written and spoken language, though …

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The paper reports data from an on-line peer tutoring project. In the project 78, 9–12-year-old
students from Scotland and Catalonia peer tutored each other in English and Spanish via a …

As a relatively young field of research and development started by work on cryptanalysis
and machine translation around 50 years ago, natural language processing (NLP) is …

This chapter provides a historical overview of ICALL over the last decade by focusing on two
key areas: resources for the language learning classroom and resources for the researcher …

Collocation preferences represent the commonly used expressions, idioms, and word
pairings of a language. Because collocation preferences arise from consensus usage, rather …

The latest developments of information and communication technologies (ICT) and its large
penetration in different sectors of our society pose new challenges and demands in the field …

Digital tools are not always used in the manner their designers had in mind. Therefore, it is
not enough to assume that learning through CALL tools occurs in intended ways, if at all. We …