Theatrical practices variously called multicultural, postcolonial, syncretic, intercultural, transcultural, and imperialistic comprise a contested cluster of related operations in need of theorizing. After analyzing a number of approaches, the authors propose a new two-way flow model for intercultural theatre.
PLASER is a multimedia tool with instant feedback designed to teach English pronunciation for high-school students of Hong Kong whose mother tongue is Cantonese Chinese. The objective is to teach correct pronunciation and not to assess a student's overall pronunciation quality. Major challenges related to speech recognition technology include: allowance for non-native accent, reliable and corrective feedbacks, and visualization of errors.
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