Game-based Spoken Dialog Language Learning Applications for Young Students

This demo presents three different spoken dialog applications that were developed to provide young learners of English an opportunity to practice speaking and to receive feedback on particular aspects of their English speaking ability. The speaking tasks were designed as game-based interactions in order to engage young students and they provide feedback about grammar yes/no question formation and simple past tense verb formation) and vocabulary. A pilot study with 27 primary-level English as a foreign language (EFL) learners investigated the usefulness of these applications.