A Rather Intelligent Language Teacher.
Stefano A. Cerri, Joost Breuker · 1981
A semi-intelligent CAI program for teaching the use of conjunctions in a number of foreign languages is presented. The representation of well known confusions in the use of these conjunctions form the basis of tutorial strategies to correct the student. The program is written as a try-out of DART, an ATN-based system for authoring intelligent CAI lessons on the PLATO-system. Emphasis is put on the fact that intelligence in CAI is not all-or-none: the degree of intelligence required is dependent on the variances permitted and expected in the student's responses. Misconceptions are one of the major sources of variance. DART is proposed as facilitating the transition between traditional and intelligent CAI.