SPACE Reading Tutor: Design and Functionality

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SPACE Reading TutorDesign and Functionality

• Leen Cleuren
• Jacques Duchateau
• Pol Ghesquière
• Hugo Van hamme

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Overview Presentation/Demo

• Overview Reading Tutor 2 parts
• Overview of possible exercises with the Reading
  Tutor
• Demonstration of the Reading Tutors
  functionalities and exercises

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1. Overview Reading Tutor

• Reading tutor consists of 2 parts
• Part for the teacher/clinician
• Part for the student

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Part for the teacher/clinician

• BEFORE REMEDY preparation
• Manage exercises
• Make new exercises
• Manage students
• Make new students
• Attach exercises to students

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Part for the teacher/clinician

• AFTER REMEDY assessment
• Relisten to a particular students exercise
  sessions
• Automatically assess a particular students
  exercises by means of speech recognition
• Possibility to investigate the speech
  recognizers analyses in Praat

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Part for the teacher/clinician

• Results assessment
• Classification in 5 groups (cf. CITO)
• A best 25 ? E worst 10
• Automatic detection of D- and E-children can be
  done with high accuracy (as good as a manual
  assessment)
• Only these worst performing children need to be
  assessed manually
• ? time-saving!

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Part for the student

• REMEDY exercising
• Make exercises that were assigned to the student
• (Recordings are made during each exercise)

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2. Overview Exercises

• There are 2 types of exercises
• Word reading exercises
• Story reading exercises

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Word reading exercisesWords are presented one by
one on the computer screen
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Story reading exercisesStories are presented
sentence by sentence/paragraph by paragraph on
the computer screen
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Word reading exercises

• Exercise 1 child reads, reading tutor listens
• The previous word stays on the screen until the
  next word is presented
• The next word is presented
• When it has been detected that the previous one
  was read (speech recognition)
• When the maximally allowed time to try to read
  the word has passed

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Word reading exercises

• Exercise 2 child reads flashed words, reading
  tutor listens
• Each word is flashed on the computer screen so
  that it is only presented for a very short time
  (adjustable)
• The next word is presented
• When it has been detected that the previous one
  was read (speech recognition)
• When the maximally allowed time to try to read
  the word has passed

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Word reading exercises

• Additional options
• Spontaneous help by the reading tutor
• After x seconds without a try to read the word
  (speech recognition), the word is prompted by the
  reading tutor (speech synthesis)
• Ask for help by the student
• After clicking a word, the word is prompted by
  the reading tutor (speech synthesis)
• choice between whole word, phoneme-by-phoneme,
  syllable-by-syllable feedback

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Story reading exercises

• Exercise 1 child reads, reading tutor listens
• The next sentence/paragraph is presented
• When it has been detected that the last word of
  the previous one was read by the child (speech
  recognition)
• When the maximally allowed time to try to read
  the sentence/paragraph has passed

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Story reading exercises

• Exercise 2 reading tutor reads, child reads
• The reading tutor reads to the child (speech
  synthesis) and the child tries to read along with
  it
• The next sentence/paragraph is presented
• When it has been detected that the last word of
  the previous one was read by the speech
  synthesizer (NO speech recognition)

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Story reading exercises

• Exercise 3 reading tutor reads and restarts,
  child reads
• The reading tutor reads to the child (speech
  synthesis) and the child tries to read along with
  it
• When the child appears to be x number of words
  behind on the speech synthesizer (speech
  recognition), the reading tutor goes back in the
  text to restart reading from there on
• The next sentence/paragraph is presented
• When it has been detected that the last word of
  the previous one was read by the child (speech
  recognition)

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Story reading exercises

• Exercise 4 reading tutor reads and
  accelerates/slows down, child reads
• The reading tutor reads to the child (speech
  synthesis) and the child tries to read along with
  it
• When the child is not able to keep up with the
  pace of the speech synthesizer (speech
  recognition), the reading tutor slows down for
  the next screen
• When the child was able to keep up with the pace
  of the speech synthesizer (speech recognition),
  the reading tutor accelerates for the next screen

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Story reading exercises

• Additional options
• Cf. word reading exercises
• Spontaneous help by the reading tutor
• Ask for help by the child by clicking the word
• Normal reading pace reading tutor is adjustable
• Green box that indicates the word that should be
  read next

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Story reading exercises

• Additional options
• The next word is presented when the previous one
  was read (exercise for fast but inaccurate
  readers)
• After the reading of a story, the difficult words
  are selected an presented again to the child as
  an exercise
• choice between whole word, phoneme-by-phoneme,
  syllable-by-syllable feedback

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Story reading exercises

• Additional options
• Pictures can be added

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Demonstrations