Computer Assisted Learning and NLP - Vance Stevens
Channel: Minhaaj Rehman
Date: 06/12/2020

Tools like Grammarly, Ref n Write and Scholarcy are all outcomes of Natural Language Processing and help in writing academic papers that are of high quality. On December 6th, I'll be talking to an expert in computer-assisted language teaching Vance Stevens. Vance has trained pilots in UAE and has spent 40 years working around the world teaching English using cutting-edge technologies such as SecondLife. We will be discussing issues like academic writing and modern-day tools for intelligent research like MAXQDA and NVivo. 

You can read more about his work at https://vancestevens.com/papers/CurriculumVitaeVance.pdf

00:00 Intro
09:00 Quick Chat with Bobbi about  Technology in Schools
04:24 500 Episodes of Learning Together and ESL Work
35:40  Webheads Global Community
41:47 Earlier work on NLP and Digitising Language 
45:16 Earlier Chatbots & Limitations 
50:15 Teaching Pilots Technical Courses & Pedagogical Principles 
59:00 SecondLife, Sims & ESL teaching in Virtual Worlds
01:04:11 Minecraft in Teaching & Gamification 
01:12:40 Game-Based Learning & Pedagogical Principles
01:17:33 Addiction, Games & Reality
01:20:50 Academic Peer Review Problems & TESOL publishing
01:23:00 Peculiarity of English vs European & Oriental Languages 
01:37:00 Spending like in Gulf as an Expat

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