As online education programs increase their numbers, autonomous learning becomes more necessary to achieve academic success. The present research determines the impact that participating in an course has on students’ language learner autonomy. To quantify this Measuring Instrument for Language Learner Autonomy was applied second and last week of course. By means a paired samples t-test, it conf...

Pedagogical agents have made significant strides over the past few years as a new species of learning technologies. This paper is a review on the current state of the art in pedagogical agents, believability and human-likeness, and instructional affordance of the autonomous agents in Intelligent Tutoring Systems. It reviews the challenges that concern pedagogical agents, and proposes research a...

This paper presents a methodology, called CAPTAIN, to build adaptive agents in an integrated framework that facilitates both building agents through knowledge elicitation and interactive apprenticeship learning from subject matter experts, and making these agents adapt and improve during their normal use through autonomous learning. Such an automated adaptive agent consists of an adversarial pl...

This essay offers a critical review of some key theoretical issues relevant to second language acquisition and considers the practical implications of these issues on language teaching. The discussion advocates a renewed communicative approach to language pedagogy, which entails the educators’ readiness to act as teacher-researchers, their cautious considerations of individual learner differenc...

This paper discusses a data-driven learning (DDL) tool, which consists of a learner corpus for L2 learners of German. The learner corpus, in addition to submissions from ongoing current users, has been constructed from millions of submissions from a variety of activity types of approximately 5000 learners who used the E-Tutor CALL system over a period of five years. By following a cyclical proc...

This paper considers learner misconceptions information which is presented to the learner in an open learner model. We suggest that specific information about misconceptions may be of benefit to the learner, to help them reflect on their knowledge and understanding. We investigate acceptance of their misconceptions presented as animations and step-by-step text descriptions by two groups of user...

Learner autonomy has attracted numerous researchers in language teaching for the last four decades. However, there exists still a need to investigate what extent learners of foreign languages, particular languages other than English, are autonomous. This study aims learner learning French at university Turkey by exploring students’ perceptions relevant (i.e., responsibilities, abilities, and me...

When presented with an unknown robot (subject) how can an autonomous agent (learner) figure out what this new robot can do? The subject’s appearance can provide cues to its physical as well as cognitive capabilities. Seeing a humanoid can make one wonder if it can kick balls, climb stairs or recognize faces. What if the learner can request the subject to perform these tasks? We present an appro...