Share Paper: ItsLEADR: Intelligent Tutoring System for Learning English Articles

  1. Rika Yoshii, California State University San Marcos, United States
  2. Jacky Hernandez, California State University San Marcos, United States

Abstract: Abstract: ItsLEADR is an Intelligent Tutoring System for helping ESL students develop reasoning skills in choosing English articles such as “a/an” and “the.” The English article system is a difficult concept to understand for students whose native languages do not contain an article system. Instead of relying on vague terms such as “specific” and “definite”, our approach uses diagrams to depict the situations in which each type of article should be used. ItsLEADR uses the domain model, the student model, and the pedagogical model to provide individualized tutoring. This paper describes the diagrams, the current system design, the initial evaluation ...