Emotionally Adaptive Intelligent Tutoring System To Reduce Foreign Language Anxiety

Quality education is associated with two necessary factors: learners’ cognitive and emotional states. An adaptive system that takes the emotional state into account can enhance learning. We implemented an emotionally adaptive intelligent tutoring system that detects foreign language anxiety and provides appropriate intervention as needed. Note that the current experiment is still ongoing, and the results reported here are based on the data we currently have. We compared the adaptive approach with fixed feedback strategies. Our preliminary results revealed a statistically significant effect of using adaptive feedback to reduce foreign language anxiety. Also, we found a statistically significant improvement in the learning gains with a moderate effect size when using adaptive feedback. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.