• DocumentCode
    2828952
  • Title

    Using Comprehensive Memory Cycle Updating in Extensive Reading

  • Author

    Chiu, T.K. ; Wang, T.I. ; Fu, J.H. ; Hsieh, T.C. ; Su, C.Y. ; Tsai, K.H.

  • Author_Institution
    Eng. Sci. Dept., Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    15-17 July 2009
  • Firstpage
    666
  • Lastpage
    668
  • Abstract
    English is a global language and thus learning it is important in many contexts. One way to approach this learning task is to undertake extensive reading of English texts. However, if students have an inadequate vocabulary, it is difficult for them to select appropriate articles to read. To address this problem, a number of studies have applied the theory of the memory cycle to help learners memorize words more efficiently. However, the method is inefficient when it just uses to update the memory cycle of the target words directly. In this work we propose a new framework, comprehensive memory cycle updating, which can not only update the memory cycle of the word directly, but also can update the memory cycle indirectly via learner response. This framework can reduce the number of times a learner needs to review a word in order to memorize it. In addition, by adopting the concept of the memory cycle, this framework can find articles, which contain words that the learners have already learned, as well as those they have almost forgotten.
  • Keywords
    computer aided instruction; feedback; English text reading; comprehensive memory cycle updating; extensive reading; Animation; Data mining; Electronic learning; Learning systems; Multimedia systems; Natural languages; Speech enhancement; Speech processing; Timing; Vocabulary; e-Learning; memory cycle; vocabulary learning;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advanced Learning Technologies, 2009. ICALT 2009. Ninth IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Riga
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3711-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3711-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICALT.2009.51
  • Filename
    5194333