Towards an Intelligent Knowledge Based Tutoring System for Foreign Language Learning

Abstract

Intelligent Tutoring Systems have found a wide range of potential applications across a multitude of disciplines and subject areas. The Intelligent Spaniard is an Intelligent Knowledge Based Tutoring System designed to assist intermediate level students with their learning of Spanish grammar, by testing their knowledge of regular and irregular verbs. This paper describes the system's architecture which takes the form of three rule-based expert systems working in synergy with each other. The Intelligent Spaniard has been developed as a domain-independent generic tutoring system, hence, its knowledge bases can be replaced with knowledge bases containing the vocabulary and grammar of other foreign languages.