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  <Title>A Corpus-Based Grammar Tutor for Education in Language and Speech Technology</Title>
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4 Conclusions and future prospects
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Summing up, we propose to let LST students learn grammatical analysis and formal grammar writing by practicing these skills with the help of a tutoring system which provides a learning environment which in many ways is a realistic one, both as regards data and formal methods. The grammar exercises will have an empirical connection to authentic language in the form of a tagged corpus; the formalisms and tools will be of the same kind as those used in &amp;quot;real-life&amp;quot; LST; and grammar formulation will be presented as a case of hypothetico-deductive problem solving.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The pedagogical adaptation consists, as of now, in the following: (1) arranging the learning situation so that the students' practice at each moment is focussed on one component of the subject which is to be learned, while keeping the other components as realistic as possible; (2) going from tile simple to the complex; (3) making sure that there is adequate feedback (preferrably intrinsic) at all times. Further, we plan to evaluate the grammar tutor continuously in actual LST and linguistics courses in our department, both in order to assess its effectiveness as a learning aid and to give us guidance in its further development.</Paragraph>
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