Sha, Guoquan(2009) AI-based chatterbots and spoken English teaching: a critical analysis. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 22(3), 269 — 281.
This survey offers a comprehensive examination on the use of chatterbots based on artificial intelligence in spoken English teaching. Equipped with a theoretical background in interactionism, Chatterbots were designed to create a virtual environment for conversations in either voice or text form. Based on its knowledge base and methodology, the author evaluated chatterbots by several detailed examples in the process and presented the advantages and limitations of the system. In the study, the author performed a classroom survey to examine how it worked out among the language learners. As the new teaching method, chatterbots are still in the initial phase and developments are required. As it is not a methodology that cures all the problems, the knowledge base of chatterbots is significant and it should be well adapted before the operation of chatterbots. With more students’ favorite topics and natural scenarios of daily life involved, chatterbots would produce better results as expected.
Good idea to teach oral English through AI technology. Yet a doubt on the effectiveness of the intellegent bots, especially on speech recognition function, still exists. I'm quite sure that young learners would get absorbed with the text reading bots with various accents and two gender versions. This would be a good treatment for speaking practice.
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