Why spoken-dialogue, and immersion, for second language acquisition?

Summary

Outlines why spoken-dialogue and immersion are beneficial for second language acquisition, with theoretical groundings from linguistics and cognitive science, and examples of existing computer-aided spoken-dialogue and immersive investigations.

Literature

See:

• Initial research proposal: Examining the impact of different immersion technologies on the efficacy of dialogue-based, automatic speech recognition language learning environments
• SLA Contextualisation: Evaluating dialogue system design using approaches and methods in language teaching
• Summarising existing VR CALL research
• Design notes from other ASR + SDS research investigations
• Commerical ASRs List
• Existing research/commercial implementations