Overview of Computer-assisted Language Learning for European Portuguese at L2f

In this paper, we give an overview of our research in Computer-Assis ted Language Learning for European Portuguese, to show how our long-time experience in spoken language proc ssing allowed to propose multimedia documents as learning material. Web-based serious game were also intro duced to cover aspects of listening, reading, and writing skills. One fundamental aspect of all our tools rema ins in the fully-automatic generation of the curriculum. This is very valuable for teachers, saving them time in se arch for motivating materials of appropriate quality, level and topic. A Web portal was recently created to m ake all our tools publicly available athttp://call.l2f.inesc-id.pt/reap.public .

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