RALL-E robot-assisted language learning prototype

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Description

RALL-E (Robot-Assisted Language Learning in Education) is an Alelo project that migrates agent technology to the Robokind R25 robot, producing a prototype that can engage in conversation in Chinese. The concept is being tested in collaboration with the Virginia Department of Education and the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia. Embedding agent technology into the robot lets learners engage naturally in mixed-initiative conversation more than with a screen-displayed agent; the approach descends from the STEVE work in that agent and learners cohabit a shared world, but the robot enters the learners' real world rather than learners entering the agent's virtual world.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• Robot hardware enabling the pedagogical agent to enter the real world of the learners

Constraints

Target Learners

• high school language learners

Learning Goals

• Chinese language conversation practice

Claims

Related Designs

• Teachy Mini: a knowledge-based generative social robot tutoring prototype on the Reachy Mini platform
• AIfred: desk-based robotic arm with end-effector projector delivering spatially co-located generative AI assistance

Examples

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Key Sources

• W. Lewis Johnson & James C. Lester. (2015). Face-to-Face Interaction with Pedagogical Agents, Twenty Years Later. Int J Artif Intell Educ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-015-0065-9

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title	RALL-E robot-assisted language learning prototype
description	RALL-E (Robot-Assisted Language Learning in Education) is an Alelo project that migrates agent technology to the Robokind R25 robot, producing a prototype that can engage in conversation in Chinese.
status	review
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