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Are Commercial "Personal Robots" Ready for Language Learning?

其他書名	Focus on Second Language Speech
出版	ERIC Clearinghouse, 2016
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cPHwvgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Today's language classrooms are challenged with limited classroom time and lack of input, and output practice in a stress-free environment (Hsu, 2015). The use of commercial, readily available tools such as Personal Robots (PRs; e.g. Amazon's Echo, Jibo) might promote language learning by freeing up class time, allowing for a more focused personalized instruction, and giving learners more opportunities for input exposure and output practice in a stress-free environment. PRs are pedagogically valuable because of their built-in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) software. This feasibility study investigates the pedagogical use of PRs as tools to extend the language classroom by combining it with traditional in-class, teacher-facilitated interactive practices. We evaluated a commercial PRs' ability to comprehend L2 speech, to provide "easy-to-understand" feedback, and to deliver accurate results for a set of pre-established questions. Using a survey and interviews, the results highlight the benefits of personalized, computer-mediated instruction as an approach to extend the reach of the classroom. As such, our study contributes to this under-studied area of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL): the pedagogical use of personal robots in L2 education. [For the complete volume of short papers, see ED572005.].