ABSTRACT
The Army Research Institute (ARI) is developing an adaptive language tutor that gives job-relevant communicative practice, known as the Military Language Tutor (MILT). The initial target user for MILT is intelligence linguists in the United States (US) Army who have progressed to advance individual training in preparation for jobs. They can be assumed to have reached a Level 2 in target language proficiency. In MILT two primary exercise types are designed to motivate students to want to use and improve their language: a simulated dialogue exercise and an animated graphics. This exercise allows students to practice production and understanding of language embedded in an interview or interrogation task that is central to their job. For grammatical errors, MILT will follow the principle of informative feedback and will have as a default value the delivery of complete information about each error: its location in the sentence as well as its classification as a subject-verb disagreement, and so forth.
