This NATO proceedings volume presents papers from a multidisciplinary workshop on intelligent tutoring sys- tems research for language learning. The book presents the state of the art in a single volume, with contributors from computer science, linguistics, and psychology.

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Section 1. Teaching Practice: Understanding Technology and Language Learners.- STORYBOARD and Communicative Language Learning: Results of the Düsseldorf CALL Project.- Learners' Intuitions, Misconceptions and Errors.- Section 2. Computational and Theoretical Bases for ITS: Grammars, Lexicons, Parsers, and Discourse Models.- The Competition Model and Foreign Language Acquisition.- Naive vs. Formal Grammars: A Case for Integration in the Design of a Foreign Language Tutor.- A Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar for French and its Relevance to Language Teaching.- WordNet and the Organization of Lexical Memory.- Semantic Discourse Processing and Tutoring Systems for Second Language Learning.- Section 3. Modeling the Language Learner: Computational Methods.- Conceptual Modelling in Error Analysis in Computer-Assisted Language Learning Systems.- The Use of Explanation-Based Learning for Modeling Student Behavior in Foreign Language Tutoring.- Nobile: Object-Based User Model Acquisition for Second Language Learning.- Language Technology and Language Instruction: Computational Diagnosis of Word-level Errors.- Section 4. Tutoring Knowledge and Learner Control: Knowledge Representation, Computational Strategies, and Environments.- A Foreign Language Tutoring and Learning Environment.- Issues for Tutoring Knowledge in Foreign Language Intelligent Tutoring Systems.- SWIM or Sink: The Problem of Communicating Thought.- Invoking and Exploring HELP in a Decoupled Task-Discussion Level Environment for Second Language Learning.- Section 5. Computer Systems and Environments for Foreign Language Learning.- Building an Intelligent Second Language Tutoring System from Whatever Bits You Happen to Have Lying Around.- Drill and Practice for Turkish Grammar.- WIZDOM: A Multiple-PurposeLanguage Tutoring System Based on AI Techniques.- Intelligent Automated Strategies of Teaching Foreign Language in Context.- The Technological Promise of Second Language Intelligent Tutoring Systems in the 21st Century.