TY - JOUR
T1 - Using a Robot Peer to Encourage the Production of Spatial Concepts in a Second Language
AU - Wallbridge, CD
AU - van, den Berghe R
AU - Garcia, Hernandez D
AU - Kanero, J
AU - Lemaignan, S
AU - Edmunds, C
AU - Belpaeme, T
PY - 2018/12/12
Y1 - 2018/12/12
N2 - We conducted a study with 25 children to investigate the efectiveness of a robot measuring and encouraging production of spatial concepts in a second language compared to a human experimenter. Productive vocabulary is often not measured in second language learning, due to the diiculty of both learning and assessing productive learning gains. We hypothesized that a robot peer may help assessing productive vocabulary. Previous studies on foreign language learning have found that robots can help to reduce language anxiety, leading to improved results. In our study we found that a robot is able to reach a similar performance to the experimenter in getting children to produce, despite the person’s advantages in social ability, and discuss the extent to which a robot may be suitable for this task.
AB - We conducted a study with 25 children to investigate the efectiveness of a robot measuring and encouraging production of spatial concepts in a second language compared to a human experimenter. Productive vocabulary is often not measured in second language learning, due to the diiculty of both learning and assessing productive learning gains. We hypothesized that a robot peer may help assessing productive vocabulary. Previous studies on foreign language learning have found that robots can help to reduce language anxiety, leading to improved results. In our study we found that a robot is able to reach a similar performance to the experimenter in getting children to produce, despite the person’s advantages in social ability, and discuss the extent to which a robot may be suitable for this task.
UR - https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/context/secam-research/article/2259/viewcontent/wallbridge2018using.pdf
U2 - 10.1145/3284432.3284433
DO - 10.1145/3284432.3284433
M3 - Conference proceedings published in a journal
VL - 0
JO - Proceedings of the Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2018) conference
JF - Proceedings of the Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2018) conference
IS - 0
T2 - Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2018)
Y2 - 12 December 2018
ER -