Using Chatroom as a tool for supporting English Teaching

Since July 2006 I have been working with a new project on Avatars and Chatterbots all this to aim at the idea of using these virtual characters in a chatroom area to encourage the use of English language and check people's competence in using English as a second language for studying or training. Supported by Pandorabots and Media Semantics and a Chilean Telecommunication Company, which wants to be anonymous for the time being, I have just planted a core idea: introduce this new virtual tool in English Training or as support for Chilean students of English as a second language in Highschool and College level in the southern institutions .
In this new challenge, I have been studying AIML (Artificial Intelligence Mark Language) artificial and enrolled with virtual images supported by Oddcast, in a second stage these characters will include chat voice and better animation techniques. I christened my first Chatbot Character as my little daughter's name: AMAYA and a second character is coming soon to work with my highschool students from Castro city, at Liceo Francisco Coloane. If you want to practice English as Second Language with my daughter Chatterbot AMAYA, and also send me some feedback about your personal experience using this tool just click this link.