arXiv:2608.03952cs.AI2026-08

用教育学框架训练英语教师模型,让AI更懂学生学习节奏。

TACT: Taxonomy-Aligned Post-Training for Pedagogically Adaptive English Tutoring

论文配图:TACT: Taxonomy-Aligned Post-Training for Pedagogically Adaptive English Tutoring
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  • 基于教学策略与学习行为双分类体系,构建可标注对话数据集
  • 在78个真实场景中比基线模型提升20.3%适应性表现
  • 适合教育AI研究者与智能辅导系统开发者参考

大型语言模型被广泛用于为英语作为第二语言(ESL)学习者提供对话练习。但有效的英语辅导不仅需流畅应答,还需根据学习者行为与对话上下文选择合适的教学策略。现有研究虽提出多种适应性支持原则,却多具任务特异性,未充分融入基于大模型的ESL辅导训练与评估中。本文提出TACT(Taxonomy-Aligned Conversational Tutor),一个以人类研究为基础的后训练与评估框架。我们基于文献构建了两个互补的分类体系:包含13种教学回应策略的教师策略分类法,以及按行为类型与状态划分的学习者动作分类法。利用该体系,我们构建了TACTCorpus,对260段真实师生对话进行32,379条标注,并生成高质量增强训练数据。随后通过监督微调与分类对齐的组相对策略优化,对Qwen3.5-4B模型进行后训练,得到TACTutor,重点优化支架质量而非单纯模仿参考答案。在包含78个真实辅导场景的策略平衡诊断基准TACTBench上,TACTutor相比基线提升20.30%,优于所有评估的专有基线模型,同时保持在外部教育基准上的基线性能;在50名学习者的盲测中,TACTutor获得最高平均评分。我们公开数据、基准与模型权重,为发展教育适应性英语辅导系统提供开放基础。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to provide conversational practice for English-as-a-second-language (ESL) learners. Effective ESL tutoring, however, requires more than fluent response generation: a tutor must select an appropriate pedagogical action based on learner behavior and dialogue context. Human-tutoring research offers principles for adaptive support, but they are often task-specific and remain insufficiently integrated into LLM-based ESL tutor training and evaluation. We present TACT (Taxonomy-Aligned Conversational Tutor), a human-grounded framework for post-training and evaluating pedagogically adaptive ESL tutors. Drawing on established literature, we develop two complementary taxonomies: the Tutor-Strategy Taxonomy with 13 tutor response strategies and the Student-Move Taxonomy characterizing learner behavior by move type and status. Using these taxonomies, we construct TACTCorpus, which enriches 260 authentic teacher-student conversations with 32,379 annotations and quality-controlled augmented training data. We then post-train Qwen3.5-4B through supervised fine-tuning followed by taxonomy-aligned Group Relative Policy Optimization, producing TACTutor and optimizing it for scaffolding quality rather than reference imitation alone. On TACTBench, a strategy-balanced diagnostic benchmark comprising 78 authentic tutoring contexts, TACTutor improves over its backbone by 20.30% and outperforms all evaluated proprietary baselines under the same protocol, while maintaining backbone performance on established external educational benchmarks; in a blinded study with 50 learners, it also receives the highest overall mean rating among the evaluated tutors. We release the data, benchmark, and model weights, providing an open foundation for developing pedagogically adaptive ESL tutors.

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