Bots for language learning now: Current and future directions

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dc.contributor.authorFryer, Luke
dc.contributor.authorConiam, David
dc.contributor.authorCarpenter, Rollo
dc.contributor.authorLăpușneanu, Diana
dc.contributor.editorRobert Godwin-Jones
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-25T18:57:30Z
dc.date.available2020-06-25T18:57:30Z
dc.date.issued2020-06-01
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.identifier.citationFryer, L. K., Coniam, D., Carpenter, R., & Lăpușneanu, D. (2020). Bots for language learning now: Current and future directions. Language Learning & Technology, 24(2), 8–22. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10125/44719
dc.identifier.doi10125/44719
dc.identifier.issn1094-3501
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/44719
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.publisherCenter for Language & Technology
dc.publisher(co-sponsored by Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning, University of Texas at Austin)
dc.subjectBots
dc.subjectChatbots
dc.subjectConversational Agents
dc.subjectLanguage Learning
dc.titleBots for language learning now: Current and future directions
dc.typeColumn
dc.type.dcmiText
local.llt.topicEmerging Technologies
prism.endingpage22
prism.number2
prism.publicationnameLanguage Learning & Technology
prism.startingpage8
prism.volume24

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Volume 24 Number 2, June 2020 Special Issue:Technology-enhanced L2 Instructional Pragmatics