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Article: Bots for language learning now: Current and future directions

TitleBots for language learning now: Current and future directions
Authors
Fryer, LKConiam, DCarpenter, RLăpușneanu, D
KeywordsChatbots
Conversational Agents
Language Learning
Issue Date2020
PublisherUniversity of Hawaii, National Foreign Language Resource Center; Center for Language Learning & Technology. The Journal's web site is located at http://llt.msu.edu
Citation
Language Learning & Technology, 2020, v. 24 n. 2, p. 8-22 How to Cite?
AbstractBots are destined to dominate how humans interact with the internet of things that continues to grow around them. Despite their still budding intellectual capacity, major companies (e.g., Apple, Google and Amazon) have already placed (chat)bots at the centre of their flagship devices. (Chat)Bots currently fill the internet acting as guides, merchants and assistants. Chatbots, designed as communicators, however, have yet to make a meaningful contribution to perhaps their most natural vocation: foreign language learning partners. This review engages in three questions that surround this issue: 1. Why are chatbots not already at the centre of foreign language learning? 2. What are two key developers of chatbots working towards that might push chatbots into the language learning spotlight? 3. What might researchers, educators, and developers together do to support chatbots as foreign language learning partners right now?
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/283342
ISSN
1094-3501
2021 Impact Factor: 4.694
2020 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.585

 

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dc.contributor.authorFryer, LK-
dc.contributor.authorConiam, D-
dc.contributor.authorCarpenter, R-
dc.contributor.authorLăpușneanu, D-
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-22T02:55:14Z-
dc.date.available2020-06-22T02:55:14Z-
dc.date.issued2020-
dc.identifier.citationLanguage Learning & Technology, 2020, v. 24 n. 2, p. 8-22-
dc.identifier.issn1094-3501-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/283342-
dc.description.abstractBots are destined to dominate how humans interact with the internet of things that continues to grow around them. Despite their still budding intellectual capacity, major companies (e.g., Apple, Google and Amazon) have already placed (chat)bots at the centre of their flagship devices. (Chat)Bots currently fill the internet acting as guides, merchants and assistants. Chatbots, designed as communicators, however, have yet to make a meaningful contribution to perhaps their most natural vocation: foreign language learning partners. This review engages in three questions that surround this issue: 1. Why are chatbots not already at the centre of foreign language learning? 2. What are two key developers of chatbots working towards that might push chatbots into the language learning spotlight? 3. What might researchers, educators, and developers together do to support chatbots as foreign language learning partners right now?-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii, National Foreign Language Resource Center; Center for Language Learning & Technology. The Journal's web site is located at http://llt.msu.edu-
dc.relation.ispartofLanguage Learning & Technology-
dc.rightsRetrieved from http://llt.msu.edu/vol5num3/kennedy/default.html-
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.-
dc.subjectChatbots-
dc.subjectConversational Agents-
dc.subjectLanguage Learning-
dc.titleBots for language learning now: Current and future directions-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailFryer, LK: fryer@hku.hk-
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