Title :
A Design of Mobile Application for English Learning
Author :
Chi, Chen-Chung ; Kuo, Chin-Hwa ; Lin, Kuo-Yang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of CSIE, Tamkang Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract :
Learners can listen to music and read the synchronous lyrics using this mobile music playing application. The proposed system will make questions that correspond to lyrics for EFL (English as Foreign Language) learners studying. This approach focuses on retrieving verb-noun collocations and making appropriate questions automatically. BNC (British National Corpus) has been chosen to calculate mutual information to get the correct collocations, and the synset of Word Net has been used to make wrong candidates which people often make mistakes for using collocations. Therefore the learner can study anytime, anywhere by using mobile devices, proposed mobile application, lyrics reading and music listening.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; information retrieval; mobile computing; music; natural languages; BNC; British National Corpus; EFL learner; English as foreign language; English learning; WordNet synset; mobile device; mobile music playing application; music listening; synchronous lyrics reading; verb-noun collocation retrieval; Databases; Educational institutions; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Multimedia communication; Streaming media; Lyrics; Mobile Learning; Mutual Information;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technology in Education (WMUTE), 2012 IEEE Seventh International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Takamatsu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0884-7
DOI :
10.1109/WMUTE.2012.59
