An overview of spoken language technology for education

This paper reviews research in spoken language technology for education and more specifically for language learning. It traces the history of the domain and then groups main issues in the interaction with the student. It addresses the modalities of interaction and their implementation issues and algorithms. Then it discusses one user population – children – and an application for them. Finally it has a discussion of overall systems. It can be used as an introduction to the field and a source of reference materials.