Who is who: the roles in an intelligent system for foreign language terminology learning

ITELS is an intelligent system for foreign language terminology learning. It is aimed not only at assisting language learning focused on specific terminology but also at enhancing learner's conceptual knowledge in the subject area, The system could be tuned to aid learning in different terminological areas and supports three styles of tutoring: system-initiated, collaborative, and learner-initiated, Three agents take part in the instructional process supported by ITELS: the human teacher, the system, and the learner, Each of them is an active agent characterised by a set of specific roles with respect to the system functioning, In this paper we describe ITELS with emphasis on the roles of these agents.