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Jul 2026
Conversational Agents in Practicing and Assessing Interactional Competence: Current Research and Future Directions
This conceptual paper provides an overview of artificial intelligence (AI)‐powered conversational agents (CAs) in language learning and assessment, highlighting features that make CAs promising tools for scalable interactional competence (IC) practice and assessment. First, we review the evolution of CAs, with a focu...
V. Timpe‐Laughlin, Larry Davis, Saerhim Oh et al.
· Language Learning · 0 citations