Review Article

Exploring the Relationship between Interactions and Learning Performance in Robot-Assisted Language Learning

Table 1

Excluded criteria.

EC1The robot did not play a/an (assisted-)teaching role (focusing on the robot programming or having no implications to RALL)EC7Articles that highly coincides with the previous one (similar title, abstract, and same author)å
EC2The language of the article was not EnglishEC8People learned the language by programming the robot
EC3The robot functioned outside a classroomEC9The robot was for sign language and special education
EC4The robot was not physical but virtual (a game in which the character is a robot)EC10Chatbots
EC5No empirical data was includedEC11Only part of the article was available
EC6The robot was for first language learning or STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) educations instead of second language learning onlyEC12The score of quality criteria is 0