Title :
MyEnglishTeacher-an evolutionary Web-based, multi-agent environment for academic English teaching
Author :
Cristea, Alexandra I. ; Okamoto, Toshio ; Cristea, Paul
Author_Institution :
Graduate Sch. of Inf. Syst., Univ. of Electro-Commun., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
We describe our research on building a free, evolutionary, Internet-based, agent-based, long-distance teaching environment for academic English. Web English teaching environments are few, and mostly they imply a fee. However, none of them considers the challenges the non-native English-speaking academic has to face. We describe some of the design and implementation aspects of the system prototype, focusing especially on the evolutionary, adaptive features, and only marginally on the pedagogical issues involved
Keywords :
Internet; distance learning; evolutionary computation; information resources; intelligent tutoring systems; linguistics; multi-agent systems; teaching; English teaching; Internet-based distance teaching; MyEnglishTeacher; evolutionary computation; multi-agent system; system prototype; Buildings; Computer aided instruction; Dictionaries; Education; Humans; Internet; Natural languages; Prototypes; Research and development; Vocabulary;
Conference_Titel :
Evolutionary Computation, 2000. Proceedings of the 2000 Congress on
Conference_Location :
La Jolla, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6375-2
DOI :
10.1109/CEC.2000.870808