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Robots for Foreign Language Learning: Speaking Style Influences Student Performance.

Kerstin Fischer¹, Oliver Niebuhr², Maria Alm¹

¹Department of Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark, Sonderborg, Denmark.

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|September 20, 2021

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Robots instructing students with a charismatic speaking style significantly improved language learning performance. This finding highlights the importance of vocal delivery in educational technology and human teaching.

Keywords:

charisma intonation language learning social robots speaking style

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Area of Science:

Educational Technology
Applied Linguistics
Human-Robot Interaction

Background:

Teacher characteristics influence student performance, but specific factors remain unclear.
Robots are increasingly used in educational settings, necessitating research into effective instructional methods.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the impact of a robot's speaking style on student performance in a foreign language learning task.
To determine if a charismatic vocal delivery enhances learning outcomes compared to a non-charismatic style.

Main Methods:

40 participants received instructions from a robot via video, presented in either a charismatic or non-charismatic speaking style.
Participants completed a task requiring them to produce foreign language sentences based on prosodic visualizations.
Performance was analyzed by evaluating the accuracy of participants' sentence productions.

Main Results:

Language learners demonstrated significantly better performance when the robot used a charismatic speaking style.
The vocal delivery of instructional content by a robot directly impacted learning effectiveness.

Conclusions:

A charismatic speaking style is beneficial for robot-assisted language instruction.
Findings suggest that vocal expressiveness, even in artificial instructors, plays a crucial role in student learning and may explain variations in human teacher effectiveness.