Paper Info
Title
The Development and Evaluation of English Dialogue Companion System
Abstract
In this paper, we propose the English Dialogue Companion (EDC) system to help elementary school students learn second language, as English. Learners can practice conversation with the EDC system in English. In order to motivate the learners, we design the three learning activities to enhance the environment of English learning, which are the choice of learning companion phase, the conversation phase, and the teaching phase. We also conducted a pilotstudy to evaluate the EDC system. The results showed the subjects agreed that the system is positive and useful. For the most of learners, we found that the most favorite learning activity is to teach learning companion. In addition, the greater part of learners liked the same gender learning companion. And learners selected the learning companion depended on the learning companion is regards as a classmate or a teacher.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/ICALT.2008.120
ICALT
Keywords
Field
DocType
greater part,favorite learning activity,english learning,english dialogue companion,conversation phase,edc system,teaching phase,companion phase,english dialogue companion system,elementary school student,learning activity,intelligent systems,teaching,computer science,computational modeling,psychology,artificial intelligence,natural languages,motivation,human factors,linguistics
Computer aided instruction,Conversation,Computer science,Second language,Natural language,Pedagogy,Chatbot,Multimedia,Vocabulary
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
8
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yi-ting Huang1191.91
Jie-Chi Yang235043.91
Yu-Chieh Wu324723.16