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A Mobile Invented Spelling Tutoring System

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Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners’ and Doctoral Consortium (AIED 2022)

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Abstract

Invented spelling is a common exercise administered in kindergarten classrooms where students are asked to produce phonetically correct, but not necessarily absolutely correct spellings. For instance, “jyraf” is a phonetically correct spelling for “giraffe”. We present a mobile intelligent tutoring system capable of robustly providing adaptive feedback for invented spelling practice on nearly any target word, and report some initial user testing results.

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    Note in this example that “p” is incorporated instead of “i”. The calculated correction sequences favor fixing missing or incorrect consonants over vowels.

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Carnegie Mellon University’s GSA/Provost GuSH Grant funding was used to support this project.

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    Daniel Weitekamp & Patience Stevens

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Correspondence to Daniel Weitekamp .

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  1. Ateneo De Manila University, Quezon, Philippines

    Maria Mercedes Rodrigo

  2. Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

    Noburu Matsuda

  3. Durham University, Durham, UK

    Alexandra I. Cristea

  4. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Vania Dimitrova

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Weitekamp, D., Stevens, P. (2022). A Mobile Invented Spelling Tutoring System. In: Rodrigo, M.M., Matsuda, N., Cristea, A.I., Dimitrova, V. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners’ and Doctoral Consortium. AIED 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13356. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11647-6_100

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