Robot-assisted language learning (RALL) is a promising application when employing social robots to help both children and adults acquire a language and is an increasingly widely studied area of child–robot interaction. By introducing prosodic entrainment, i.e., converging the robot’s pitch with that of the learner, the present study aimed to provide new insights into RALL as a facilitative method for interactive tutoring. It is hypothesized that pitch-level entrainment by a Nao robot during a word learning task in a foreign language will result in increased learning in school-aged children. The results indicate that entrainment has no significant effect on participants’ learning, contra the hypothesis. Research on the implementation of entrainment in the context of RALL is new. This study highlights constraints in currently available technologies for voice generation and methodological limitations that should be taken into account in future research.


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    Titel :

    Pitch it right:Using prosodic entrainment to improve robot-assisted foreign language learning in school-aged children


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    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2021-12-01


    Anmerkungen:

    Molenaar , B , Fernández , B S , Polimeno , A , Barakova , E & Chen , A 2021 , ' Pitch it right : Using prosodic entrainment to improve robot-assisted foreign language learning in school-aged children ' , Multimodal Technologies and Interaction , vol. 5 , no. 12 , 76 . https://doi.org/10.3390/mti5120076



    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



    Klassifikation :

    DDC:    629



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