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Introduction:
Expert systems created by students can help them to understand the rules of a language.
These could be rules of grammar (e.g. comparatives and superlatives), spelling (e.g. how
to pluralise), pronunciation (e.g. of '_ed' endings), etc. These systems can be built as
group projects.
Example project structure (for grammar)
Computers are rules-based systems and are good at processing rules, but only if they are well-programmed. The rules processing can be in the form of a decision tree, for example using hyperlinks on the Internet or in Powerpoint, or in the form of if...then...else statements in programming languages such as JavaScript.
If students don't understand the rules of the system that they are trying to describe, then this will be revealed when their program is tested. It may be motivating for other students to try to find loophole in the system.
A way of handling exceptions can be programmed into the system. This can be used to cope with irregularity in language.
Example expert systems for language teaching
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