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  <Title>TEACHING THE ENGLISH TENSE: INTEGRATING NAIVE AND FORMAL GRAMMARS IN AN INTELLIGENT TUTOR FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING</Title>
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FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In the paper a new approach to the problem of determining the tense combination for an English sentence has been proposed with integrates the treatment of tense in a systemic grammar with the naive approach in school grammars. The systemic theory provides general assumptions (i.e. three-tense opposition and seriality) which the tense selection process relies upon, while the naive features provide the criteria for terminating the selection process. The integration of the naive approach into :a systemic framework can be evaluated according to three different perspectives: Computational. How effective is the proposed theory? What is its coverage? How general is it? - Pedagogical. Is it possible to utilize such a theory to really teach the English verbs? How efficient is such an approach in comparison with the traditional one? - Psychological. To which extent does the serial theory of time mirror the real processes that occur in the mind of a speaker ? The ongoing research tries to answer these questions. A series of computational experiments with the new Verb Generation Expert, implemented in PROLOG on a MaclI, is under way with the goal of establishing the reliability of the proposed approach. The construction of a new Tutor aimed at teaching the serial theory of time is under development. Finally, a series of psychological experiments concerning the cognitive validity of the systemic treatment of tense are being planned.</Paragraph>
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