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Teaching ESL and Instruction Design with Computational Thinking and Robot-Assisted Language Learning

Authors:
Jianan Zhou

Keywords: Computational Thinking; Computational linguistics; ESL instruction; Robot-assisted language learning.

Abstract:
Living in the 21st century, it seems impossible for everything to develop without technology, critical thinking, and computational thinking. This paper is to address the application of computational thinking on English as Second Language (ESL) teaching and robot-assisted language learning. After illustrating that computational thinking is a process to solve problems, while computational linguistics is afield concerned with the statistical or rule-based modeling of natural language, this paper gives a brief introduction of the Language Acquisition Device theory and how ESL teachers design the instructions and teach English by following the computational thinking process. Robots, however, can also be used to interact with English language learners and to help them with their speaking skills in the 21st-century classroom.

Pages: 35 to 37

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018

Publication date: March 25, 2018

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4367

ISBN: 978-1-61208-619-4

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from March 25, 2018 to March 29, 2018