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Content-Based Language Learning in a Digital Library

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Asian Digital Libraries. Looking Back 10 Years and Forging New Frontiers (ICADL 2007)

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Digital libraries have untapped potential for supporting language teaching and learning. This paper describes a new scheme for automating topic-specific language learning using a specially built digital library. Three exercises of different types are generated automatically from the library content: one that learners undertake individually, one in which learners collaborate in pairs, and one in which a group of learners compete. The system aims to foster content-based language learning, which greatly increases students’ motivation, fosters long-term recollection, and can be culturally situated in appropriate ways.

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Dion Hoe-Lian Goh Tru Hoang Cao Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg Edie Rasmussen

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Wu, S., Witten, I.H. (2007). Content-Based Language Learning in a Digital Library. In: Goh, D.HL., Cao, T.H., Sølvberg, I.T., Rasmussen, E. (eds) Asian Digital Libraries. Looking Back 10 Years and Forging New Frontiers. ICADL 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4822. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77094-7_54

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