RoboLang: robot-assisted foreign language learning interactions (English)
Keywords: spoken language, verbal interaction, human-robot interaction
The data consists of video-recorded robot-assisted language learning sessions in a foreign language (English). The corpus was collected in spring 2019 in four Swedish-speaking primary schools in Finland. Each session took 15–20 minutes. There were 111 pupils, aged 10–13, who participated in learning sessions of 2 to 4 learners, guided by their teacher.
The digital tool used was NAO6 robot that was operated with the Elias language learning application (Utelias OY). NAO is a small, social humanoid robot with ability to move, with voice recognition and gaze recognition and speech synthesiser.
In recorded verbal interaction sessions, pupils in learning tasks with the robot focused on English vocabulary related to family and colors. This was the learners' first learning experience with a social robot in a school context.
The data was collected as part of RoboLang research project.
Details about the resource
- Language: Finnish, English, Swedish
- Form: audio, video, transcriptions
- Genre: foreign language learning interactions
- Dataset size: 13 h 42 min
- Timescale: 2019
| Outi Veivo | researcher |
| Hilla-Marja Honkalammi | assistant |
| Anni Nieminen | assistant |
| Jenna Saarni | assistant |
| Marjut Johansson | researcher |
The dataset is used by the RoboLang research group.
Contact persons
| Marjut Johansson | marjut.johansson *at* utu.fi |
| Outi Veivo | outi.veivo *at* utu.fi |
| Hilla-Marja Honkalammi | hilla-marja.h.honkalammi *at* utu.fi |
Reference instructions
Johansson, Marjut, Veivo, Outi, Honkalammi, Hilla-Marja, Nieminen Anni & Saarni Jenna: RoboLang1. [video- and text data]. School of Languages and Translation Studies, University of Turku.