Affective effects of speech-enabled robots for language learning

Author

Lee, Sungjin ; Kim, Changgu ; Lee, Jonghoon ; Noh, Hyungjong ; Lee, Kyusong ; Lee, Gary Geunbae

Author_Institution

Pohang Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Pohang, South Korea

fYear

2010

fDate

12-15 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

145

Lastpage

150

Abstract

This study introduces the speech and language technologies used in the educational assistant robots that we developed for language learning and exploring the affective effects of robot-assisted language learning (RALL). To achieve this purpose, a course was designed in which students have meaningful interaction with intelligent robots in an immersive environment. A total of 24 elementary students, ranging in age over 9-13, were enrolled in English lessons. Descriptive statistics and pre-test/post-test design were used to investigate the affective effects of RALL approach. The result showed that RALL is promoting and improving students´ satisfaction, interest, confidence, and motivation at the significance level of 0.01.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; robots; speech processing; RALL; intelligent robots; language technologies; robot-assisted language learning; speech enabled robots; speech technologies; CALL; RALL; computer-assisted language learning; r-Learning; robot-assisted language learning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Berkeley, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7904-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-7902-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SLT.2010.5700837

Filename

5700837