Individualised NLP-enhanced feedback for distance language learning

The purpose of this paper is to present a strategy for the provision of language courses to learners of Spanish for specific purposes with intelligent feedback. As a byproduct, students can be recommended to proceed through a slightly different learning path in order to overcome their shortcomings. The paper is structured in 5 sections: section 1 is an introduction to this research work; section 2 describes the didactic assumptions and the learning environment in which the strategy is applied; section 3 presents the tools for both linguistic analysis and error detection, and describes how the system generates feedback; and section 4 concludes with some remarks and presents future work.