Reported prior exposure to machine-read instructional material rose from 44.5% to 69.9% between sessions, an effect of the study itself rather than a baseline difference¶

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q3 i? Between the two questionnaire rounds, the share reporting prior encounter with machine-read instructional material rose from 44.5% to 69.9%, which the authors interpret as carry-over produced by the first TTS lesson. → Gendo Kumoi 2026

Evidence¶

Gendo Kumoi 2026¶

Gendo Kumoi, Fumie Watanabe, Tota Suko, Takashi Ishida, Yuko Kuma, Manabu Kobayashi, and Shigeichi Hirasawa. (2026). A Semi-Automated System for Generating Dialogue-Based TTS Lessons Using Large Language Models: An Exploratory Study of Educational Potential. Preprint, under review at IEEE Access. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12235 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2607.12235

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Background-item comparison across the two anonymous questionnaire rounds. The shift is reported as a record of carry-over between sessions rather than used to adjust any comparison, since the single TTS lesson was many students' first encounter with machine-read instruction.

"Reported prior exposure to machine-read instructional material, by contrast, rose sharply between the two rounds, from 44.5% to 69.9% answering that they had encountered such material (𝜒2(1)=27.37 , 𝑝 < .001 )."

Discussion¶

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