Chatting with AI Bot: Vocabulary Learning Assistant for Saudi EFL Learners

Autor/in	Alsadoon, Reem
Titel	Chatting with AI Bot: Vocabulary Learning Assistant for Saudi EFL Learners
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 14 (2021) 6, S.135-157 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	Vocabulary Development; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); Native Language; Translation; Dictionaries; Retention (Psychology); Artificial Intelligence; Semitic Languages; Story Telling; Indexes; Linguistic Input; Learning Strategies; Computer Assisted Instruction; Student Attitudes; Pretests Posttests; Foreign Countries; Preferences; Language Tests; Saudi Arabia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wortschatzarbeit; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Dictionary; Wörterbuch; Merkfähigkeit; Künstliche Intelligenz; Arabisch; Hebräisch; Indexdatei; Sprachbildung; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Computer based training; Computerunterstützter Unterricht; Schülerverhalten; Ausland; Language test; Sprachtest; Saudi-Arabien
Abstract	In the AI field of language learning, chatterbots are an interesting area for language learning and practice. This research investigates Arabic EFL vocabulary learning using an interactive storytelling chatterbot. A chatterbot was created and equipped with four vocabulary tools: a dictionary, images, an L1 translation tool, and a concordancer. The target words were enhanced by these tools to provide the learners with interactive comprehensible input. This project seeks to identify which tools are mostly used when EFL learners are practicing English with a chatterbot. It also seeks to determine which tool could help most in vocabulary learning as well as retention. The results of the study indicate that the dictionary is the most favoured and effective tool for vocabulary learning. For retention, the findings uncover that L1 translation is slightly (but insignificantly) higher than the dictionary. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01