BIPED: Pedagogically Informed Tutoring System for ESL Education

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03486v1
• Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 17:49:24 GMT
• Title: BIPED: Pedagogically Informed Tutoring System for ESL Education
• Authors: Soonwoo Kwon, Sojung Kim, Minju Park, Seunghyun Lee, Kyuseok Kim,
• Abstract summary: Large Language Models (LLMs) have a great potential to serve as readily available and cost-efficient Conversational Intelligent Tutoring Systems (CITS) Existing CITS are designed to teach only simple concepts or lack the pedagogical depth necessary to address diverse learning strategies. We construct a BIlingual PEDagogically-informed Tutoring dataset of one-on-one, human-to-human English tutoring interactions.
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• Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have a great potential to serve as readily available and cost-efficient Conversational Intelligent Tutoring Systems (CITS) for teaching L2 learners of English. Existing CITS, however, are designed to teach only simple concepts or lack the pedagogical depth necessary to address diverse learning strategies. To develop a more pedagogically informed CITS capable of teaching complex concepts, we construct a BIlingual PEDagogically-informed Tutoring Dataset (BIPED) of one-on-one, human-to-human English tutoring interactions. Through post-hoc analysis of the tutoring interactions, we come up with a lexicon of dialogue acts (34 tutor acts and 9 student acts), which we use to further annotate the collected dataset. Based on a two-step framework of first predicting the appropriate tutor act then generating the corresponding response, we implemented two CITS models using GPT-4 and SOLAR-KO, respectively. We experimentally demonstrate that the implemented models not only replicate the style of human teachers but also employ diverse and contextually appropriate pedagogical strategies.

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