Chatbot as an Intelligent Personal Assistant for Mobile Language Learning

The application of automatic conversational system (chatbot) in learning foreign language is still limited. In this study, we built a chatbot dedicated to English learners. The system is named English Practice is installed on the mobile devices to interact with users through a window chat. Chatbot is able to automatically remind learners to study and suggest some answers to multiple choice questions. It also has the ability to help users in learning vocabulary and new lessons. The result shows that most of the basic functions of the system are used by the users and this this promises to be applied widely in the future.