In recent years, robots have increasingly been implemented as tutors in both first- and second-language education. The field of robot-assisted language learning (RALL) is developing rapidly. Studies have been published targeting different languages, age groups, and aspects of language and using different robots and methodologies. The present…

Representative examples of professional literature on foreign language teaching, published during the period 1951-54, are discussed under the following headings: vocabulary, bilingualism, evaluation, surveys, summaries and interpretation of research, and foreign languages in the elementary schools. Noted in the summary are major trends which the…

This review of literature in linguistics and the psychology of language focuses on studies produced from 1961 through 1963. Such topics as language development, generative grammar, semantics, and the role of linguistics in the teaching of reading are covered, and much attention is given to the areas of verbal learning and the psychology of…