영어교육 관련 AI 챗봇 연구 논문의 동향 분석

This paper explores the recent trends of AI chatbot studies in English education in a Korean setting. AI chatbot is relatively well-researched and applied in English education due to the interactive dialogue opportunities available in adaptive low anxiety environments in the EFL setting. The paper investigates 40 KCI-level papers on the topic and classifies them according to development, analysis and application of the technology in connection with English education at various school levels. In chatbot development research, papers predominantly use Dialogflow as a tool to expand on the elementary school textbook dialogue. Studies tend to focus either on technical or linguistic analysis of interactive dialogues between students and chatbots. Application studies weigh more on learning effects of affective and cognitive domains in learning English. A few studies show chatbots as a possible tool for English evaluation.