WHO IS WHO - THE ROLES IN AN INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR FOREIGN-LANGUAGE TERMINOLOGY LEARNING

ITELS is an intelligent system for foreign language terminology learni ng. It is aimed not only at assisting language learning focused on spe cific terminology but also at enhancing learner's conceptual knowledge in the subject area, The system could be tuned to aid learning in dif ferent terminological areas and supports three styles of tutoring: sys tem-initiated, collaborative, and learner-initiated, Three agents take part in the instructional process supported by ITELS: the human teach er, the system, and the learner, Each of them is an active agent chara cterised by a set of specific roles with respect to the system functio ning, In this paper we describe ITELS with emphasis on the roles of th ese agents.