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Interactive Teach<strong>in</strong>g Material for the World Wide Web:<br />

A Syntax Tutor Written <strong>in</strong> Java<br />

Abstract for WebNet-96, category "Educational Multimedia for the Web".<br />

Ana von Klopp<br />

Department of L<strong>in</strong>guistics<br />

University of Wales, Bangor<br />

Bangor LL57 2DG<br />

Great Brita<strong>in</strong><br />

email: avk@bangor.ac.uk<br />

phone: +44 1248 38 22 68<br />

This presentation describes an <strong>in</strong>teractive tutor<strong>in</strong>g system for teach<strong>in</strong>g the basics of generative syntax to first year<br />

l<strong>in</strong>guistics students. It was written by Ana von Klopp and Chris Dalton <strong>in</strong> Java, the C++-like programm<strong>in</strong>g language<br />

developed by Sun Microsystems which makes it possible to create <strong>in</strong>teractive applications that can be accessed and run<br />

from anywhere on the Internet through a World Wide Web browser.<br />

The Syntax Tutor allows the user to choose a sentence or phrase to analyse, assign syntactic categories to the words <strong>in</strong><br />

the sentence and write a set of phrase structure rules. When the selections have been made, the program shows the parse<br />

tree(s) generated by the grammar or tells the user that no analysis can be found. The screenshots below show how the<br />

application works. The first image shows the appearance of the application on first visit<strong>in</strong>g the page.<br />

To select a new sentence, the user clicks on the Change Sentence button. This makes the sentence field editable,

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