What Visual Feedback Should a Reading Tutor Give Children on their Oral Reading Prosody?
Workshop Paper, ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE '11), pp. 153 - 156, August, 2011
Abstract
An automated reading tutor that models and evaluates children's oral reading prosody should also be able to respond dynamically with feedback they like, understand, and benefit from. We describe visual feedback that Project LISTEN's Reading Tutor generates in realtime by mapping prosodic features of children's oral reading to dynamic graphical features of displayed text. We present results from preliminary usability studies of 20 children aged 7-10. We also describe an experiment to test whether such visual feedback elicits oral reading that more closely matches the prosodic contours of adult narrations. Effective feedback on prosody could help children become fluent, expressive readers.
BibTeX
@workshop{Sitaram-2011-122078,author = {Sunayana Sitaram and Jack Mostow and Yuanpeng Li and Anders Weinstein and David Yen and Joe Valeri},
title = {What Visual Feedback Should a Reading Tutor Give Children on their Oral Reading Prosody?},
booktitle = {Proceedings of ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE '11)},
year = {2011},
month = {August},
pages = {153 - 156},
}
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