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Recent studies into the use of CMC technology indicate its potential for providing FL learners wi... more Recent studies into the use of CMC technology indicate its potential for providing FL learners with opportunities for conversational skills practice and development (Cheon, 2003, Hubbard, 2004. Computer programs designed to simulate intelligent conversation, commonly known as chatbots, have joined other internet language learning media as part of the panoply of newer resources, but have yet to receive empirically-tested approval in the literature. The present study intends to identify the potential of this form of AI technology, as it currently stands, to help teenage ESL students with conversational text practice and development (defined here as facilitating learners in the production of comprehensible output; having access to meaningful input; acquiring and practising speech acts; focusing on errors and correction; negotiation for meaning, as well as enabling practice and acquisition of lexical and syntactical items).
Recent studies into the use of CMC technology indicate its potential for providing FL learners wi... more Recent studies into the use of CMC technology indicate its potential for providing FL learners with opportunities for conversational skills practice and development (Cheon, 2003, Hubbard, 2004. Computer programs designed to simulate intelligent conversation, commonly known as chatbots, have joined other internet language learning media as part of the panoply of newer resources, but have yet to receive empirically-tested approval in the literature. The present study intends to identify the potential of this form of AI technology, as it currently stands, to help teenage ESL students with conversational text practice and development (defined here as facilitating learners in the production of comprehensible output; having access to meaningful input; acquiring and practising speech acts; focusing on errors and correction; negotiation for meaning, as well as enabling practice and acquisition of lexical and syntactical items).