The role of animated pedagogical agents in scenario-based language e-learning: a case-study

Eliseo Reategui (1) , Eunice Polonia (2) , Letícia Roland (3)

1 Departamento de Informática
2 Núcleo de Educação a Distância do Instituto de Letras
3 LearningBrazilian.com

Scenario-based language e-learning (SBeL) is focused on contextual learning, since it uses authentic activities that can improve communication skills. This paper reports a case-study that proposes the use of animated pedagogical agents (APAs) in a Brazilian Portuguese web-based course built under a mix of task- and scenario-based approaches. Its main purpose is to discuss how APAs can be used to improve students' communicative skills, cultural awareness and level of interaction with course's content.

Keywords: e-learning; computer assisted language learning (CALL); scenario-based learning

Domains: Technology for Human Learning

Eliseo Reategui, Eunice Polonia, Letícia Roland. The role of animated pedagogical agents in scenario-based language e-learning: a case-study. Conference ICL2007, September 26 -28, 2007, 2007, Villach, Austria. 7 p. ⟨hal-00257120⟩