Corpora: SALT and the future of ELT
eric@scs.leeds.ac.uk
Sun, 6 Sep 1998 14:54:48 +0100
The British Council have asked me to speculate on the potential future impact
of Speech And Language Technology on English Language Teaching delivery and/or
demand. Corpora have been used for ELT dictionaries and teaching materials,
and to train speech recognisers, machine translation systems etc which could
be used in ELT. What are the prospects for increased used of SALT in ELT
delivery, e.g. computer-based pronunciation tutoring and other CALL systems?
And what about ELT demand: could SALT make ELT redundant, e.g. machine
translation may mean fewer people will need or want to learn English?
CORPORA readers include ELT practitioners and SALT researchers - I welcome
advice and opinions on this from both. In particular, any existing literature
on SALT+ELT, and future trends in SALT+ELT.
I will post a summary of responses; thanks in advance
Eric Atwell, Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, SOCRATES Coordinator,
and Director, Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech (CCALAS)
School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT, England
EMAIL: eric@scs.leeds.ac.uk TEL: (44)113-2335761 FAX: (44)113-2335468
WWW: http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/scs/public/staff/eric.html