Stimulating and sustaining interest in a language course: An experimental comparison of Chatbot and Human task partners

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Highlights：

• Task interest under Human and Chatbot partner conditions was monitored over 3 tasks.

• No difference in task interest at T-1 under Human and Chatbot partner conditions.

• Interest trajectories demonstrated a novelty effect for the Chatbot condition.

• Only task interest for the Human partner condition predicted future course interest.

摘要

•Task interest under Human and Chatbot partner conditions was monitored over 3 tasks.•No difference in task interest at T-1 under Human and Chatbot partner conditions.•Interest trajectories demonstrated a novelty effect for the Chatbot condition.•Only task interest for the Human partner condition predicted future course interest.

论文关键词：CMC,Interest,Novelty-effect,Education and technology,Language learning,Chatbot

论文评审过程：Received 25 January 2017, Revised 24 March 2017, Accepted 29 May 2017, Available online 30 May 2017, Version of Record 2 June 2017.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.05.045