The crucial role of affective factors like anxiety, inhibition, motivation and self-esteem have long been of interest in the field of language learning due to their enormous association with the cognitive processes involved in performance in a second or foreign language. This study aimed at investigating the relationship between Iranian EFL learners’ self-esteem and conversational dominance in ...

Success and progress in learning a foreign language depend mainly on students correcting errors. Using repairs for addressing errors inside classrooms helps them solve the problems of speaking, listening, hearing, others. It assists modifying their talk prevents communication breakdowns. This study aimed to identify EFL teachers' knowledge practice other-initiated repair strategies students' li...

This paper explores how callers formulate information enquiries for an artificial conversational agent in a call centre and compares it with the way are addressed to human operators of same centre. It includes 60 recordings 103 agent, transcribed analysed using method Conversation Analysis. We show that people reformulate their differently even though goal both cases is get answer enquiry. When...

This book has appeared in the series Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies: monographs from 50 up to 150 pages about specific topics subjects computational linguistics. The intended audience of are researchers and graduate students NLP, AI, related fields. I define myself as a linguist; my review is perspective “random” linguistics researcher wanting learn more this topic or looking...

In 2019, media reports raised awareness about privacy and security violations in Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) like Alexa, Siri Google. Users report that they perceive CUI as creepy are concerned their privacy. The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) several other laws across the globe, give users right to control processing of data, for example by requesting deletion data...