GenAI as a task interlocutor
How can generative AI support learners’ active task engagement during interactional tasks?
TBLT-Agent
Generative AI as a
Task Interlocutor
Even within the same task, how AI interacts can shape learners’ participation and language use.
SAME TASK · DIFFERENT ROLE
ROLE 01DOMINANTAI-led interaction
AIVOICE
ROLE 02COLLABORATIVEShared interaction
01 · THE STUDY
Beyond what AI says,
we focus on how it relates.
Collaborative peer interaction is a core foundation of task-based language learning. This study views generative AI not simply as a response tool but as a Task Interlocutor, examining how its interactional role influences task performance and L2 learning among Korean elementary EFL learners.
02 · RESEARCH QUESTIONS
Two questions
guiding our study
Differences across AI roles
How do different AI interactional roles affect elementary EFL learners’ task performance and language development?
03 · INTERACTIONAL ROLES
One AI,
two ways of interacting
Drawing on Storch’s pair dynamics model, we operationalized two distinct roles for conversational AI.
CONDITION A01
Dominant AI
A condition in which AI leads the interaction
LEARNERAI
CONDITION B02
Collaborative AI
A condition in which learners and AI co-construct the interaction
LEARNERAI
04 · WHAT WE MEASURE
Interaction patterns
and changes in learning
TASK PERFORMANCE
LEARNING OUTCOMES
QuestionsAccuracy of question formation
SuggestionsAccuracy of suggestion speech acts
Pretest - Posttest production accuracy