Wait-learning: Leveraging conversational dead time for second language education

Second-language learners are often unable to find time for language practice due to constraints in their daily lives. In this paper, we examine how brief moments of waiting during a person's existing social conversations can be leveraged for second language practice, even if the conversation is...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Guo, Philip J. (Contributor), Miller, Robert C. (Contributor), Cai, Carrie Jun (Contributor), Glass, James R. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2014-09-26T17:33:00Z.
Subjects:
Online Access:Get fulltext