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Problem 12 from an Algebra Tutoring Corpus

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Situation: A tutor is teaching algebra to one student.

Participants: Tutor and student.

Acknowledgment: This dialogue is taken from the Circle Archive, maintained by Kurt VanLehn. This particular dialogue is from Algebra Corpus 1, one of six corpora of tutoring.

Web Access to the Source: The entire set of corpora can be accessed at http://www.pitt.edu/~circle/Archive.htm. This corpus can be accessed here: http://www.pitt.edu/~circle/Archive/Algebra1.htm

Features of this dialogue: When a dialogue turn seems to complete the satisfaction of a prevailing joint goal, that appearance constitutes a bid of termination of the corresponding game. This dialogue exemplifies the rejection of such a bid. In turn 10, the student is ready to drop the goal, and the tutor is not.

The analyses were done from written transcripts. Working from audio records would clarify cases in which one participant is satisfied that a particular game has finished, contrasted with cases where a participant expects that discussion of the completion of the goal would continue. Intonation sometimes indicates a sense of closure of an interval of goal pursuit.

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