Impact of learning motivation and achievement by using interactive script robot as instructional tool for teaching English in primary school

[[abstract]]Abstract The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of a robot as teaching aids for elementary students in their English learning motivation and achievement. Many studies have pointed out that the learning motivation play an important role in learning a second language, so teachers must respect it. Recently, humanoid robot is widespread application in education. In order to allow teachers to combine the robot functional models depending on their teaching demands, we use the scripting language, Interactive Drama Markup Language (IDML) , so that teacher can control the robot by programmed robot’s teaching materials which combined with ARCS motivation model easily. And then, the robot could be used as the motive induced strategies and tool in English classroom. In our experiment, seven models of collaboration between teachers and robot are proposed. According to the evaluation result, the robot being the aids of a teacher in the elementary school is assured to improve students' concentration and learning atmosphere during the class, and significantly appears the highly motivation behavior response, so that the learning achievement has improved markedly. Students like English course because of the robot and the performance pattern, and also expect to the robot join the teaching activity on other courses