Interactive Question-Posing Environment for Beginners' English Learning

Abstract

Several investigations have already suggested that question-posing is a promising learning as well as a problem-solving activity. In order to realize this learning method, however, how to give feedback for the posed questions becomes a big issue. In this paper, we describe an interactive learning environment that promotes learning by question-posing in English learning for beginners. The learning environment supports learners to pose question and answer sentences. The most important characteristics of the learning environment are automatic assessment of the posed questions and feedback based on the assessment. We call this assessment as agent-assessment. To realize these functions, we have used automatic question generation techniques from English sentences proposed in our previous researches. Preliminary evaluations and related works are also described in this paper.