A paradigm shift in language teaching with a computer tool for multimodal analysis of oral discourse (IMAGE)
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Photo: Edgar Bernard, Inmaculada Fortanet, Noelia Ruiz i Julia Valeiras.
The Research Group on Academic and Professional English at the Universitat Jaume I (GRAPE-UJI) is developing a computer tool to promote a paradigm shift in language teaching — in this case, English — that will make it possible to move from an exclusively linguistic approach to a global approach in which visual elements play as important a role as verbal elements.
The team has received funding from the UJI>LAB IMPULS call with a that will help accelerate the software development of GRAPE-MARS (Multimodal Analysis Research Software). The first prototype, already in operation and tested by a large number of researchers at international level, was created in a previous project. The current project aims to improve the programme and commercialise it in relevant contexts such as research, education and business.
This software is an automatic annotation tool for the analysis of semiotic resources used in different communicative contexts. It addresses the limitations of existing programmes by enabling the fast labelling of a wide variety of information in video files through a simple interface. It also incorporates artificial intelligence tools to analyse the data generated dynamically and efficiently, facilitating quantitative or large-scale studies of oral discourse corpora.
The target groups for this knowledge transfer are real-world environments linked to research, education and the business sector.
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Universitat Jaume I de Castelló
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