@article {Dickinson:October 2008:0958-8221:369, author = "Dickinson, Markus", author = "Eom, Soojeong", author = "Kang, Yunkyoung", author = "Lee, Chong Min", author = "Sachs, Rebecca", title = "A balancing act: how can intelligent computer-generated feedback be provided in learner-to-learner interactions?", journal = "Computer Assisted Language Learning", volume = "21", year = "October 2008", abstract = "Task-based synchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) may represent an optimal psycholinguistic environment for form-meaning connections, but learners do not receive feedback from a trusted authority. Intelligent computer-assisted language learning (ICALL) provides feedback, but the encouragement of communicative interaction remains largely unexplored. To combine the benefits of ICALL and CMC, we are designing a parser-based system that provides feedback on particle usage for first-year L2 Korean learners while they chat in CMC. Both to facilitate the use of a new orthography by beginning learners and to make processing feasible for the ICALL system, we guide the content of the activity by using picture-based information-gap tasks and a game record, and we control the range of allowable learner input by using a word bank. These constraints enable the system to address L2 errors in meaningful, goal-driven interactions.", pages = "369-382(14)", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/call/2008/00000021/00000004/art00006" doi = "doi:10.1080/09588220802343702" }