arxivcs.HCcs.CL2026-07-24
Towards Reducing Foreign Language Anxiety Using Level-Appropriate Embodied Conversational Agents
Krishan Rajaratnam, Wenbin Gan, Yuan Sun
Foreign language anxiety (FLA) can be a major barrier to second language acquisition (SLA), especially in conversational contexts. With the proliferation of large language models (LLMs) throughout all areas of life, recent work suggests that interacting with LLM agents can be ins…