Automated Feedback Mechanism in Technology Enhanced Language Learning: Design and Empirical Research

Mengxi Li

doi:10.54097/3h0q1n96

Authors

Mengxi Li

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/3h0q1n96

Keywords:

Technology enhanced language learning, automated feedback mechanism, Teacher-AI Orchestration, gamified feedback, Chinese international education

Abstract

In the wave of technology empowering language education, the inefficiency and lack of personalization of traditional manual feedback have gradually become teaching bottlenecks. How can automated feedback mechanisms break through this dilemma? This study takes the single person learning scenario of Chinese international education as the starting point, explores the actual effectiveness of gamified feedback through the basic collaboration between AI and teachers, which not only accumulates data for the implementation of "Teacher-AI Orchestration" in subsequent classroom scenarios, but also provides preliminary reference for the technological integration of middle school English teaching. After conducting an 8-week controlled experiment on 48 Chinese beginners from an international school in Beijing (registration number BJ2023008 on the Ministry of Education's Foreign Affairs Supervision Network), it was found that the experimental group using AI-teacher collaborative gamification feedback had significantly better Chinese scores (average improvement score of 27.3 points) and learning motivation (scale score of 4.3 points) than the traditional manual feedback group (improvement score of 16.5 points and motivation score of 3.5 points). This result not only confirms the practical value of automated feedback mechanisms, but also provides a practical path for the deep integration of language teaching and technology.

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