Developing an interactive workbook for English foreign language teaching: Integrating state-of-the-art form and meaning assessment from computational linguistics into a current workbook for the Gymnasium (T01#)

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
• Term: from 2016 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 75650358

The goal of the proposed transfer project is to connect the fundamental research results of project A4 (SFB833) on meaning assessment as a subfield of Computational Linguistics with the analysis and feedback needs of real-life Foreign Language Teachingand Learning. The transfer project makes this concrete by exploring how the computational analysis of meaning and form can be used to provide immediate, individualized feedback to English language learners working on a range of tasks. In collaboration with the publisher Diesterweg, the project pilots and evaluates the development of an intelligent electronic workbook based on a current workbook approved for 7th grade English classes in Gymnasium.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres (Transfer Project)
• Subproject of: SFB 833: Emergence of Meaning: The Dynamics and Adaptivity of Linguistic Structures
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Detmar Meurers