Towards a general theory of action and time
Artificial Intelligence
EACL '89 Proceedings of the fourth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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A basic problem that must be dealt with in order to build an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) in the domain of foreign language teaching is that of establishing what kind of grammatical knowledge has to be included in the domain expert module. Two basic options are possible: (i) to use a naive or pedagogical grammar, comprising knowledge derived from textbooks and school grammars or (ii) to use one of the formal grammars developed by theoretical and computational linguists. The paper discusses the relationships between naive and formal grammars in foreign language teaching and presents, as a case study, an attempt to integrate the two approaches within ET (English Tutor), an ITS aimed at helping Italian students master English verb usage. More particularly, the paper focuses on the possibility of integrating a naive grammar into a systemic framework. The reliability of the proposed approach is currently being evaluated by means of a series of computational experiments with the Verb Generation Expert of ET.