In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has shown significant progress and its potential is growing. An application area of AI is Natural Language Processing (NLP). Voice assistants incorporate AI by using cloud computing and can communicate with the users in natural language. Voice assistants are easy to use and thus there are millions of devices that incorporates them in households nowadays. Most common devices with voice assistants are smart speakers and they have just started to be used in schools and universities. The purpose of this paper is to study how voice assistants and smart speakers are used in everyday life and whether there is potential in order for them to be used for educational purposes.
In recent years, digital games have taken an important place in the lives of children. Through play, children acquire digital literacy informally, even before they go to school. Games can also be used as a language learning tool nowadays. In this paper we propose a digital educational game, Wordsearch, for learning a foreign language vocabulary. In order to evaluate the game and to test its effectiveness in learning vocabulary, Wordsearch was evaluated by 11 students. Results show that the user interface of the application is simple and easy to use, and that the proposed Wordsearch Puzzle is likely to help long term vocabulary recall, while it makes learning fun by creating internal motivation to the students.
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