The goal of this systematic review is to consider whether social factors of robots allow the robots to besocially interactive language learning assistants for young students in the classroom. A total of 443 articleswere found. After applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, 17 empirical studies in which a robot assistedchildren in preschool through elementary school on their language skills were analyzed. This reviewdiscusses to which areas of language learning robots have been applied and how the social interaction of therobot influences student learning behaviors and outcomes. The results of this paper indicate that robots havecapabilities that are useful for instructing students in oral language skills because of their socially interactivenature. There is room for this social dynamic to be researched further in the human factors and human robotinteraction fields.
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