Designing a Robot Teaching Assistant for Enhancing and Sustaining Learning Motivation

Autor/inn/en	Hung, I-Chun; Chao, Kuo-Jen; Lee, Ling; Chen, Nian-Shing
Titel	Designing a Robot Teaching Assistant for Enhancing and Sustaining Learning Motivation
Quelle	In: Interactive Learning Environments, 21 (2013) 2, S.156-171 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1049-4820
DOI	10.1080/10494820.2012.705855
Schlagwörter	Teaching Assistants; Learning Motivation; Teaching Methods; Robotics; Learning Activities; Reading Skills; Questionnaires; Quasiexperimental Design; Educational Strategies; Technology Integration; Pretests Posttests; Graduate Students; Undergraduate Students; English (Second Language); Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Models; Self Concept + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Motivation for studies; Lernmotivation; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Robotertechnik; Lernaktivität; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Fragebogen; Lehrstrategie; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Analogiemodell; Selbstkonzept
Abstract	Although many researchers have pointed out that educational robots can stimulate learners' learning motivation, the learning motivation will be hardly sustained and rapidly decreased over time if the amusement and interaction merely come from the new technology itself without incorporating instructional strategies. Many researchers have identified that the sustainability of the learning motivation is closely related to the instructional strategies. Accordingly, learners must be well guided by suitable instructional strategies to enhance and sustain their learning motivation. In other words, suitable instructional strategies are required even if introducing educational robots to learners can stimulate learning motivation at the beginning of learning activities. Literature also suggests that systematic instructional strategies can be designed with the use of the Attention, Relevance, Confidence, and Satisfaction (ARCS) model. As the rapid development of robotics, it has become feasible to apply the educational robot for enhancing learning. A robot teaching assistant (RTA) was designed to enhance and sustain learning motivation for the learning of English reading skills. A quasi-experimental design and the Instructional Material Motivational Survey questionnaire were used for data collection and evaluation. The findings showed that the design of the RTA-based learning activities guided by the ARCS model for learning English reading skills can significantly improve learners' learning motivation, learning performance, and continuance intention. (Contains 9 figures and 7 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10