Foreign language conversation learning through the direct method by robot teachers

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24650553
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Educational technology
• Research Institution: Mie University
• Principal Investigator: MATSUI Hirokazu 三重大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 助教 (10303752)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 外国語会話学習 / コミュニケーションロボット / ダイレクトメソッド / E-learning

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I indicated the following three stages as the conclusions of this study "Foreign language conversation learning through the Direct method by robot teachers": (1A)Almost subjects could understand correctly the meanings of some gestures
that plural small mobile robots express with their visual line. (1B)Almost subjects could learn correctly the constructions of non-learning foreign language conversations, when the robots express a conversation and the gestures corresponding to the conversation at the same time. (2)Almost subjects could join correctly robots' conversations with using the knowledge learned from the robots. More than 80% subjects could achieve the above three stages of (1A)(1B)(2) in selected conversations. As the results, I made sure that subjects can learn foreign language conversation through the Direct method by even robot teachers.

Free Research Field

知能ロボット