| dc.description.abstract | With the advancement of functions of the hardware and the system integration, we have already possessed the function that can use programs to control robots. Scholars indicated that through the interaction with robots, learners can improve their degree about the participation, the attraction, the entertainment and intrinsic interests. On the other hand, some scholars mentioned that the process of designing and creating a finished product can help learners improve their ability about creative expression, innovative solving difficulties, cross-subject learning and language expression.
Nowadays, language teachers usually utilize TPRS which combines vigorous body language and story-telling method to let students understand the meaning of vocabulary or sentences. The aim of this research is to integrate 3 main functions, TPRS, creative design and outstanding movements of robots, to design a set of system – designing story-telling robot. This system can represent environment where learners can design a story from shares with each other and learn knowledge from the design can make a learner be a teacher, a designer to personally design stories, design movements appropriate for stories, record voice and create a demonstrated robot.
In this system, the experimental subjects are ten 22-24 years old male who are information engineering students. They were experimented by 3 aspects respectively – purely reading stories, reassembling sentences of stories and integrating TextToSpeech(TTS), and using the system to design demonstrated robots. The initial result of this experiment shows that purely reading stories made students boring and inpatient that would influence students? interests in learning English and the effect of learning vocabulary was also not good enough. On the contrary, students who adopted our system felt the study as a game. Thus, learners can extend their study time and learn vocabulary through designing movements of the robot. In addition, teaching robots to tell a story not only make learners? listening and speaking ability be improved but also help students have capacity using vocabulary. | en_US |