Developing a social media-based Chatbot for English learning

Abstract

The increasing number of foreign companies offering job vacancies in Indonesia is a blessing for new graduates. However, they could not use the opportunity due to their limited English skill. This condition may occur because there is a lack of human resource providing direct, gradual, and continuous assistance to improve their English skills. Nowadays, social media are very popular among various groups of people but they are mostly used for information exchanges. This study aims to develop an application inside Facebook as an English learning media to help students learn English more efficiently. This application is in the form of a Chatbot (an answering robot) as a substitute for a teacher to help those who have difficulties in learning English. The Chatbot integrated in the social media is expected to provide an easier adoption as the users are already familiar with its interface and navigation. This application has been applied to students of Telkom Vocational High School Malang and D3 English Study Program, State Polytechnic of Malang. With this application, students can learn English independently and utilize a rich collection of information and organized exercise items to get help or find more challenges whenever needed to avoid learning boredom.

DiSCoL: Toward Engaging Dialogue Systems through Conversational Line Guided Response Generation

“…Task-oriented dialogue systems have assisted users in accomplishing specific tasks such as finding apartments (Gustafson et al, 2000) and restaurants (Gruenstein and Seneff, 2007) or even booking movie tickets (Li et al, 2017). While, Open-domain dialogue systems have been extensively leveraged for psychotherapy counseling, entertainment, and even teaching foreign languages to users (Zhou et al, 2020;Oh et al, 2017;Sarosa Figure 1: A dialogue context and its three responses generated based on DialoGPT and our proposed DiS-CoL system using originally inferred and manipulated convlines, respectively. DiSCoL leverages convlines (depicted in colored boxes) to guide the generation model to encapsulate those informative contents.…”

Implementasi Chatbot Pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris menggunakan Media Sosial

“…Pengetahuan desain dan penelitian penting dalam mengembangkan agen pedagogis yang menarik dan berguna yang tidak hanya memanfaatkan kemajuan teknologi, tetapi juga memahami masalah emosional, kognitif, dan pendidikan sosial. Selain itu, agen percakapan telah dibangun ke dalam perangkat lunak dan perangkat keras [11].…”

“…Selain itu, chatbot mendemonstrasikan kemampuan untuk menciptakan interaksi dengan pengguna sehingga dapat dimanfaatkan untuk mendukung keterlibatan, serta menetapkan tujuan, strategi, dan hasil pembelajaran dan pelatihan. Salah satu aplikasi chatbot yang digunakan dalam bidang pendidikan yaitu untuk pembelajaran bahasa Inggris [11].…”

“…Implementasi yang cepat dari platform framework berbasis cloud untuk chatbot dikarenakan kesederhanaannya. Chatfuel merupakan framework pembuat chatbot yang telah digunakan oleh beberapa perusahaan kelas dunia karena chatbot yang dibuat oleh Chatfuel hanya membutuhkan waktu yang singkat dalam menjawab pertanyaan dari banyak pengguna sekaligus [11]. Chatfuel menyediakan platform online yang memungkinkan pengguna membuat chatbot untuk Facebook Messenger melalui antarmuka visual yang mudah digunakan [20] [21].…”

“…Tahapan proses chatPada tahap analisis, semua kebutuhan yang terkait dengan pembangunan dan pengembangan chatbot harus terpenuhi agar dapat diterima oleh pengguna. Pembuatan antarmuka aplikasi menggunakan Chatfuel Chatbot builder[11] [24].…”