초등학교 영어 교육용 로봇 콘텐츠 개발 및 적용

Development of the contents of a robot for elementary English education and its application.

Robots are new types of teaching materials for elementary English education. They can provide a powerful methodology for involving students in an interesting, emotional and authentic learning experience with language used for genuine communicative purposes. They are student-centered, and they take the experience of the classroom out into the world. This study attempted to develop the contents of a robot for elementary English education and examine their effects in elementary English classes. The contents were developed according to the elementary English curriculum. In the contents, new technologies for language learning, such as voice recognition, face recognition, pattern recognition and video chat were used. Through this research, it is believed that robots can help students acquire basic communicative competence and give them opportunities to develop their confidence and to work together real world environment by interacting with each other.