Learning collocations with FLAX apps

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Learning collocations with FLAX apps

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The rise of Mobile Assisted Language Learning has brought a new dimension and dynamic into language classes. Game-like apps have become a particularly effective way to promote self-learning to young learners outside classroom. This paper describes a system called FLAX that allows teachers to automatically generate a variety of collocation games from a con-temporary collocation database built from Wikipedia text. These games are fun to play and mimic traditional classroom activities such as Co...

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Research Paper

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Conference item

Date created

2016

Creator

Yu, Alex / Wu, Shaoqun / Witten, Ian H. / König, Jemma Lynette

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/10751

Related subjects

computer science / mobile language learning / collocation learning / Wikipedia / language learning games / mobile language learning, / Collocation learning

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