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The effectiveness of this course as measured by the acquired ability of the students to speak and understand the limited Russian material of the course supports the feasibility of machineteaching other foreign-language courses using similarly limited material.
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This research also supports the possibility of machine-teaching a fullscale course in a foreign language.
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The concept applied in this experiment, along with the experimental method-the use of the same general format of question frames and inserts, plus varied types of the most probable answers-could be applied to achieve shorter training time in other situations calling for specific but not complete ability to speak and understand a foreign language.
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The research reported here was conducted by the authors while they were employed by The George Washington University Human Resources Research Office, operating under contract with the Department of the Army. The opinions and conclusions are those of the writers and do not necessarily represent views of the University or of the Department of the Army. Richard I. Moren, now at the University of Illinois, is completing requirements for a Ph.D. degree in psychology. Dr. Rocklyn, now senior scientist of the Training Methods Division, HRRO, George Washington University, is working with certain colleagues on a Mandarin Chinese version of a limited tactical language course. They plan to start work soon on the automation of a full-scale foreign language course.
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Rocklyn, E.H., Moren, R.I. A Special machine-taught oral-aural russian language course: A feasibility study. AVCR 10, 132–136 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02768587
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02768587