Using NLP to Support English Teaching in Rural Schools

Luis Chiruzzo, Laura Musto, Santiago Gongora, Brian Carpenter, Juan Filevich, Aiala Rosa


Abstract
We present a web application for creating games and exercises for teaching English as a foreign language with the help of NLP tools. The application contains different kinds of games such as crosswords, word searches, a memory game, and a multiplayer game based on the classic battleship pen and paper game. This application was built with the aim of supporting teachers in rural schools that are teaching English lessons, so they can easily create interactive and engaging activities for their students. We present the context and history of the project, the current state of the web application, and some ideas on how we will expand it in the future.
Anthology ID:
2022.nlp4pi-1.13
Volume:
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact (NLP4PI)
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December
Year:
2022
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)
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Laura Biester, Dorottya Demszky, Zhijing Jin, Mrinmaya Sachan, Joel Tetreault, Steven Wilson, Lu Xiao, Jieyu Zhao
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NLP4PI
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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113–121
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.nlp4pi-1.13
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.nlp4pi-1.13
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Luis Chiruzzo, Laura Musto, Santiago Gongora, Brian Carpenter, Juan Filevich, and Aiala Rosa. 2022. Using NLP to Support English Teaching in Rural Schools. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact (NLP4PI), pages 113–121, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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