Bibauw, Serge Van den Noortgate, Wim François, Thomas Desmet, Piet
date.accessioned:
2022-08-12T19:01:25Z
date.available:
2022-08-12T19:01:25Z
date.copyright:
2022
date.issued:
2022-08-15
description.abstract:
The present study offers a meta-analysis of effectiveness studies on dialogue-based CALL, systems affording a learner practice in a foreign language (L2) by interacting with a conversational agent (“bot”). Through a systematic inclusion and exclusion process, we identified 17 relevant meta-analyzable studies. We made use of Morris and DeShon’s (2002) formulas to compute comparable effect sizes across designs, including k = 100 individual effect sizes, which were analyzed through a multilevel random-effects model. Results confirm that dialogue-based CALL practice had a significant medium effect size on L2 proficiency development (d = 0.58). We performed extensive moderator analyses to explore the relative effectiveness on several learning outcomes of different types and features of dialogue-based CALL (type of interaction, modality, constraints, feedback, agent embodiment, gamification). Our study confirms the effectiveness of form-focused and goal-oriented systems, system-guided interactions, corrective feedback provision, and gamification features. Effects for lower proficiency learners, and on vocabulary, morphosyntax, holistic proficiency, and accuracy are established. Finally, we discuss expected evolutions in dialogue-based CALL and the language learning opportunities it offers.
endingpage:
24
format:
Article
format.extent:
24
identifier.citation:
Bibauw, S., Van den Noortgate, W., François, F., & Desmet, P. (2022). Dialogue systems for language learning: A meta-analysis. Language Learning & Technology, 26(1), 1–24. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/73488
identifier.issn:
1094-3501
identifier.uri:
https://hdl.handle.net/10125/73488
language:
eng
number:
1
publicationname:
Language Learning & Technology
publisher:
University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Center for Language & Technology (co-sponsored by Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning, University of Texas at Austin)
rights.license:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License