Using Chat-bots for Managing Quest-based Modular Training of Engineering Students

DOI

10.2991/iscfec-18.2019.96How to use a DOI?

Keywords

IT for vocational training, English for specific purposes, interactive approach

Abstract

The article discusses major challenges when training Engineering and IT students a foreign language. One of the experimental ways to address the issues is a syllabus based on a specifically designed system of unenforced tasks — quests. When dealing with engineering students, who often lack motivation in foreign language acquisition, and a somewhat limited amount of time for training, justified by the curriculum, it is crucial to base the English language course on professional and communicative challenges that a future specialist would encounter. According to this underlying principle, we have been designing a series of additional exercises - so-called quests - to further involvement of students in language acquisition as well as develop their intercultural and communicative competencies, academic and professional skills. The strain that such diversified syllabus creates is decreased with the help of social networking means and chat bots to automate the scoring and communication processes.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - N. I. Chernova
AU  - A. A. Mandzhiev
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TI  - Using Chat-bots for Managing Quest-based Modular Training of Engineering Students
BT  - Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference "Far East Con" (ISCFEC 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5428
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