Robot as a Storytelling Partner in the English Classroom - Preliminary Discussion

This paper introduces software which enables teachers create robot as a partner easily and find out how to help a teacher difficulties when using storytelling lessons. First of all, we must understand the relations between storytelling and language learning, and the benefit of a robot being the assistance of a teacher during the lesson. In the next step, let teachers use the "programming a robot into a storytelling tool" and design the "story time" during English class. According to the evaluation result, there was highly satisfied in the new system implementation and effectively improved teacher\´s organization and technique of difficulties in the storytelling lesson. In addition, tester also had the confidence to improve students\´ participation and atmosphere during the storytelling activities.