The Effects of Feedback on Children's Engagement and Learning Outcomes in Robot-Assisted Second Language Learning.

ABSTRACT: To investigate how a robot's use of feedback can influence children's engagement and support second language learning, we conducted an experiment in which 72 children of 5 years old learned 18 English animal names from a humanoid robot tutor in three different sessions. During each session, children played 24 rounds in an "I spy with my little eye" game with the robot, and in each session the robot provided them with a different type of feedback. These feedback types were based on a questionnaire study that we conducted with student teachers and the outcome of this questionnaire was translated to three within-design conditions: (teacher) preferred feedback, (teacher) dispreferred feedback and no feedback. During the preferred feedback session, among others, the robot varied his feedback an

SUBMITTER: de Haas M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7806035 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature