L2 Vocabulary Learning Through Lexical Inferencing Stories With a Social Robot

Hoi Ki Tang; Matthijs Smakman; Mirjam De Haas; Rianne Van Den Berghe

doi:10.1145/3568294.3580140

L2 Vocabulary Learning Through Lexical Inferencing Stories With a Social Robot

Hoi Ki Tang
, Matthijs Smakman
, Mirjam De Haas
, Rianne Van Den Berghe

Communication Science

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Vocabulary is a crucial part of second language (L2) learning. Children learn new vocabulary by forming mental lexicon relations with their existing knowledge. This is called lexical inferencing: using the available clues and knowledge to guess the meaning of the unknown word. This study explored the potential of second language vocabulary acquisition through lexical inferencing in child-robot interaction. A storytelling robot read a book to Dutch kindergartners (N = 36, aged 4-6 years) in Dutch in which a few key words were translated into French (L2), and with a robot providing additional word explanation cues or not. The results showed that the children learned the key words successfully as a result of the reading session with the storytelling robot, but that there was no significant effect of additional word explanation cues by the robot. Overall, it seems promising that lexical inferencing can act as a new and different way to teach kindergartners a second language.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HRI 2023
Subtitle of host publication	Companion of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	526-530
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450399708
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3568294.3580140
Publication status	Published - Mar 2023
Event	18th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2023 - Stockholm, Sweden Duration: 13 Mar 2023 → 16 Mar 2023

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Name	ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
ISSN (Electronic)	2167-2148

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Conference	18th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2023
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Stockholm
Period	13/03/23 → 16/03/23

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kindergarten
lexical inferencing
second language acquisition
Storytelling robot
vocabulary learning

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Tang, H. K., Smakman, M., De Haas, M., & Van Den Berghe, R. (2023). L2 Vocabulary Learning Through Lexical Inferencing Stories With a Social Robot. In HRI 2023: Companion of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 526-530). (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1145/3568294.3580140

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L2 Vocabulary Learning Through Lexical Inferencing Stories With a Social Robot. / Tang, Hoi Ki; Smakman, Matthijs; De Haas, Mirjam et al.
HRI 2023: Companion of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. IEEE Computer Society, 2023. p. 526-530 (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction).

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L2 Vocabulary Learning Through Lexical Inferencing Stories With a Social Robot

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