“I Feel Like Talking With a Friend”: Exploring the Potential of Empathetic Spoken Dialogue Systems in Assessing Interactional Competence in L2 Oral Assessment
Published online on July 08, 2026
Abstract
Language Testing, Ahead of Print.
As an important area of exploration within spoken dialogue systems (SDSs), empathetic spoken dialogue systems (E-SDSs) can provide emotional support for interlocutors, and this feature has the potential to be embedded in language teaching, learning, and ...
As an important area of exploration within spoken dialogue systems (SDSs), empathetic spoken dialogue systems (E-SDSs) can provide emotional support for interlocutors, and this feature has the potential to be embedded in language teaching, learning, and ...