A PROTOTYPE OF AN ASYNCHRONOUS INTERACTIVE LEARNING SYSTEM FOR SPEAKING PRACTICE
Yuga Omori, Mika Tamura, Daisuke Ikeda · INTED proceedings · 2021
During speaking practice, it is very important for learners to receive immediate feedback from their teachers.However, it requires teachers to be with learners simultaneously to help them practicing.To eliminate this restriction, we focus interactive learning support systems adapting to individual learners.Although existing systems just recommend contents based on estimation of some measures such as knowledge level and emotion, they can not estimate their speaking levels in speaking practice including free speaking.In addition, sophisticated devices, which are not freely available, are used in some studies.Our distant goal of this study is to develop a system which can give learners flexible feedback in speaking practice without restricting time and place to practice.Such a system will enable teachers to reduce their costs and for learners to practice speaking as many times as they like.After sorting out existing learning systems based on two aspects to identify inadequacies of these systems and define some requirements for such a system, we develop a prototype that fits this missing part and meets other requirements, including no restricting time and place for practicing.After that, we show the result of a preliminary experiment using our prototype for 14 weeks on 14 international students participating in a Japanese language course.It confirms some positive feedback and improvements in our prototype from a questionnaire.