Proposal for a Conversational English Tutoring System that Encourages User Engagement

Abstract

The need for successful communication between people from different countries has become a growing necessity of modern times. The necessary medium for cross-cultural communication, English, has gained the status of an international language. In our paper propose a free-talking dialogue system designed for tutoring English as a second language. We also discuss the development and capabilities of such conversational agent and possible applications. Among the key features of such system we emphasize the principals of gamification, a notion of integrating game mechanics into non-game systems, applications and services in order to encourage user interaction. Next, we present the novel idea of teaching foreign languages to users by sentential context-learning method. Finally, we underline the importance of emotion recognition by introducing a potential foundation for verifying the assumption that certain words containing emotional content can improve learning.