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Traditional EFL (English as a foreign language) learners could find it difficult to practice speaking after class and obtain effective feedback. With the development of technology, chatbot could be one solution to tackle this dilemma. Employing the chatbot Microsoft Xiaoying as the main tool in a teaching experiment, this study aimed at figuring out whether using chatbot in oral English practice would exert a positive effect on learners’ oral English performance in grammar and pronunciation aspects. By analyzing the collected data, the results showed that: daily practice with chatbot could be suggested as part of oral English practice as it was proved to be effective on promoting learners’ oral English accuracy.
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This work is supported by the Center for Language Cognition and Assessment, South China Normal University. It’s also the result of Guangdong “13th Five-Year” Plan Project of Philosophy & Social Science (GD20WZX01-02).
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Ye, Y., Deng, J., Liu, X. (2021). The Effect of Oral Practice via Chatbot on Students’ Oral English Accuracy. In: Jia, W., et al. Emerging Technologies for Education. SETE 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13089. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92836-0_30
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