July 25, 2019 – I presented a poster at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci) in Montreal, Canada. Click here to see the poster and here to find out more about CogSci.
Kanero, J., Oranç, C., Koşkulu, S., Göksun, T., & Küntay, A. C. (2019, July). When do iconic gestures facilitate word learning? The case of L2 lessons for preschoolers led by a robot or human tutor. Poster presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Canada.
We are delighted to hear from the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD) that our paper “Social Robots for Early Language earning: Current Evidence and Future Directions” was one of the top 10 “Most Downloaded” articles in the SRCD journal family in 2018 (4th place). Thank you for your interest in our research!
Kanero, J., Geçkin V., Oranç, C., Mamus, E., Küntay, A. C., & Göksun, T. (2018). Social robots for early language learning. Child Development Perspectives, 12(3), 146-151. doi: 10.1111/cdep.12277 Full Paper
December 13, 2018 – I presented our work that explored the use of gestures in L2 lessons led by a robot tutor and a human tutor at Symposium on Robots for Language Learning at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. Our collaborators in L2TOR – Paul Vogt, Paul Leseman, and Chris Wallbridge – also presented about studies I was involved in. Find out more about the symposium at: https://sites.google.com/view/l2torsymposium
Kanero, J. (December, 2018). Gestures in L2 lessons led by a robot and human tutor. Symposium on Robots for Language Learning. Istanbul, Turkey.
Vogt, P. (December, 2018). Social robots as second language tutors: interaction design for a large field study. Symposium on Robots for Language Learning. Istanbul, Turkey.
Leseman, P. (December, 2018). Social robots as second language tutors: results of a randomized field study and prospects for education. Symposium on Robots for Language Learning. Istanbul, Turkey.
Wallbridge, C. D. (December, 2018). Using a Robot Peer to Encourage the Production of Spatial Concepts in a Second Language. Symposium on Robots for Language Learning. Istanbul, Turkey.
November 17, 2018 – We have an oral presentation at 20. Ulusal Psikoloji Kongresi (“the 20th National Psychology Congress”) in Ankara, Turkey. My collaborator Sümeyye Koşkulu (Koç University) will be giving the presentation. Find out more about the conference at: https://psikoloji2018.org/ (Turkish only)
Koşkulu, S., Oranç, C., Kanero, J., Göksun, T., & Küntay, A. C. (upcoming). Robotların Jestler ve Geri Bildirim İle Okul Öncesi Dönemde İngilizce Eğitimine Katkıları. 20. Ulusal Psikoloji Kongresi, Ankara, Turkey.
October 8, 2018 – L2TOR is hosting Symposium on Robots for Language Learning at Koç University in Istanbul Turkey on December 12-13, 2018. Learn more about the symposium at: https://sites.google.com/view/l2torsymposium/
November 3, 2018 – We have a poster presentation at the 43rd Annual Boston University Conference on language Development (BUCLD). My collaborator Ece Demir-Lira (University of Iowa) will be giving the presentation. Find out more about BUCLD at: https://www.bu.edu/bucld/
Demir-Lira, Ö. E., Kanero, J., Oranç, O., Koşkulu, S., Franko, I., Adıgüzel, Z., Uluşahin, O., Göksun, T., & Küntay, A. C. (November, 2018). Using gestures in L2 vocabulary teaching: Human or robot tutors? The 43rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston, MA.
September 20, 20118 – Oral presentation at the 8th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) and the International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob) in Tokyo. Find out more about the ICDL-EpiRob at: http://icdl-epirob2018.ogata-lab.jp/
Kanero, J., Franko, I., Oranç, C., Uluşahin, O., Koşkulu, S., Adıgüzel, Z., Küntay, A. C., & Göksun, T. (2018, September). Who can benefit from robots? Effects of individual differences in robot-assisted language learning. The 8th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics 2018, Tokyo, Japan.
January 25, 2018 – A new paper from the L2TOR project is available in the Journal of Social Robotics. The paper is open access: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12369-018-0467-6
January 8, 2018 – Our review article about the use of social robots for early language learning is published in Child Development Perspectives. The paper is open access: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cdep.12277