Robotic Chinese language tutor: personalising progress assessment and feedback or taking over your job?

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Author
Chew, Esyin
Ni Chua, Xin
Date
2020-07-06Acceptance date
2020-04-23
Type
Article
Publisher
Emerald
ISSN
1074-8121
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Purpose:
The shortage of Chinese language teachers have been identified as a pressing issue globally. This paper aims to respond to the needs by investigating and designing the learning innovation with autonomous programmable robot, NAO.
Design/methodology/approach:
By thoughtfully embedding NAO robot into teaching basic Chinese language, this research demonstrates an inquiry qualitative case study of artificial intelligence design principles and learning engagement with rule-based reasoning and progress test design.
Findings:
This state-of-the arts robot use its emotion recognition and body language automated (LED eye with various colours) to demonstrate the Chinese words, to increase learners’ understanding and enhance their memory of the words learned. The responses conclude that the novel learning experience is more fun and interesting, thus the engagement from the axis of novelty, interactivity, motivation and interest is enhanced.
Research limitations/implications:
It is recognised that the number of research participants was small, but the qualitative finding demonstrate key issues and recommendation that may inspire future empirical research.
Practical implications:
Today, robotics is a rapidly growing field and has received significant attention in education. Humanoid robots are now increasingly used in fields such as education, hospitality, entertainment and health care. Educational robots are anticipated to serve as teaching assistants.
Originality/value:
The learning engagement paradigm has shifted from manual engagement to personal response systems or mixed-reality on mobile platforms, and now with the humanoid robot, the recommendation of four principles and future work and for designing humanoid robot as a language tutor are discussed. The educational robot model can be changed to a newer robot such as CANBOT U05E.
Journal/conference proceeding
On the Horizon;
Citation
Chew, E. and Chua, X.N. (2020) 'Robotic Chinese language tutor: personalising progress assessment and feedback or taking over your job?', On the Horizon 28 (3) https://doi.org/10.1108/OTH-04-2020-0015
Description
Article published in On the Horizon on 06 July 2020, available at: https://doi.org/10.1108/OTH-04-2020-0015.
Sponsorship
Cardiff Metropolitan University (Grant ID: Cardiff Metropolian (Internal))
The study was funded by Monash University Malaysia VITAL-STELA Lab Research Grant and Cardiff Metropolitan University Interdisciplinary grant.
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