I was unsure about the copyright as the article indicated the following: Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee.
However, the article can be found via the UBC library by searching the title in bold below.
A Computer-Animated Tutor for Spoken and Written Language Learning
Dominic W. Massaro Department of Psychology University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA 95060 U.S.A. 1-831-459-2330 Massaro@fuzzy.ucsc.edu
The computer-animated tutor for spoken and written language learning that is referred to in the article is called Baldi. The ability for people to hear the language and to see the language being spoken by the computer-animated tutor has shown great benefits in second language learning, for people with hearing loss and for autistic children. One of the reasons is that the skin on the animated-tutor’s face can be made transparent, thus allowing the learner to see how the vocal tract moves when saying the word they are learning.
References
Massaro, D. (2003). A computer-animated tutor for spoken and written language learning. Paper presented at the 172-175. 10.1145/958432.958466 https://go.exlibris.link/kGJBkvfW
Below is an example of Baldi being used to help an autistic boy with language learning.
