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Towards a Conversational Agent for Learning Dutch as a Second Language : Creating More Speaking Opportunities for Students of the Delft Method
Hageman, Lukas Elias Paul (2025) Towards a Conversational Agent for Learning Dutch as a Second Language : Creating More Speaking Opportunities for Students of the Delft Method.
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| Abstract: | Learning a second language comes with its challenges, especially in the Netherlands, where you can comfortably survive with just English. There are few opportunities to practice Dutch, and even if there are, it can be daunting for learners to speak it with natives. This research aims to find a route towards an automatic conversational agent in the Delft method context, a method for teaching Dutch as a second language through a conversational approach. Such an agent would allow for more speaking opportunities and motivate learners to speak Dutch more. Two prototypes were developed through a design lifecycle, ending with an evaluation by potential end users. This evaluation showed that users would show more willingness to communicate in class to a certain extent if they could prepare with a conversational agent, which strategies work well to keep conversations flowing, and what design guidelines conversational agent developers can follow to realise a full-fledged end product for assisting in teaching Dutch as a second language. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | EEMCS: Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science |
| Subject: | 18 languages and literature, 54 computer science, 81 education, teaching |
| Programme: | Interaction Technology MSc (60030) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/106378 |
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