| 英文摘要 |
Taiwan’s Pingpu indigenous communities face severe erosion of their history, language, and cultural heritage because of generational shifts and the influence of dominant cultural hegemony. Students engaged in mother tongue instruction often encounter speaking anxiety and a lack of authentic communicative contexts. Furthermore, teachers struggle with major language proficiency discrepancies among students, underscoring the urgent need for differentiated instructional materials. In response to these pedagogical challenges, the present study integrated an artificial intelligence (AI)-based mechanism for dialogic learning guidance into a virtual reality (VR) platform tailored for Siraya language instruction and investigated its effects on students’oral language performance. A quasi-experimental design was implemented with 20 upper-elementary students in Tainan. Participants were assigned to one of two groups: one group received AI-based dialogic learning guidance + Siraya VR materials (the AI-SVR group), and the other received Siraya VR materials only (the SVR group). Although no significant overall differences in oral performance were observed between both groups, high-achieving students in the AI-SVR group significantly outperformed their peers in the SVR group, demonstrating greater internalization of target sentence structures and producing a wider variety of utterances. By contrast, oral performance among low-achieving students in both groups did not improve significantly. These findings suggest that although VR-based materials supported language learning among students of all proficiency levels, the AI dialogic tutor was particularly effective in enhancing language internalization and oral output among high-achievers. This study offers a practical reference for the development of differentiated instructional models and materials within heritage language education and presents valuable insights for endangered language revitalization efforts. |