Autonomous Technology-Assisted Language Learning/Needs

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This chapter describes a number of ideas for enhancing ATALL. These are technologies that do not currently exists or exist in forms that needs to be improved or enhanced for effective ATALL.

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[edit] Text reconstruction tasks

[edit] Portable audio player with variable-speed playback

  • Fourth-generation and later iPods permit variable-speed playback but only for audiobooks and only over a very limited range of speeds (slower/normal/faster).

[edit] Web-based mouse-over dictionaries

[edit] Possibilities:

http://www.wordchamp.com/

http://www.wordreference.com/ (with a bookmarklet)