17–19 May 2024
Meijo University Nagoya Dome Campus
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Eigo.AI - The World's First Fully AI-Powered 4-Skills Platform for English Language Learners

18 May 2024, 11:30
30m
DN 410 (North Building)

DN 410 (North Building)

AI for Teaching DN 410: Mixed Sessions

Speaker

Paul Raine (Ritsumeikan University)

Description

The age of AI is finally with us, and brings with it far-reaching implications for language teachers and learners around the world. But how do we utilize the affordances of Large Language Models (LLMs) and other AI-powered technologies for the best learning outcomes?

While the technology may have changed, in many respects the pedagogy remains the same. Students still need exposure to comprehensible written and spoken forms of the target language, and they still need to be given the chance to produce written and spoken forms of the language and receive feedback on their language use. It's still a challenge for students to find the opportunity to use the language productively, and it's still a challenge for teachers to give personalized feedback to every student in large speaking and writing classes. In the context of English language learning in Japan, many students still fall way below the recommended 2500+ hours of engagement with English by the time they graduate from college.

Eigo.AI is the world's first fully AI-powered 4-skills platform for English language learners (that we know of!). It offers a library of lessons on a wide range of topics, from historical events and figures, to important scientific discoveries, and much more. GPT4 is leveraged to provide quality materials in a range of levels, from beginner to advanced. All materials are, of course, also proof-read and checked by humans. Students can benefit from AI-powered feedback on both their speaking and writing skills, and everything can be easily tracked and monitored by teachers. For teachers looking to give their students that all-important extra exposure to English, and solve some of those age-old pedagogical problems with the latest advances in AI, why not try out Eigo.AI in some of your classes next semester? Act quickly before Universal Translation devices make language learning obsolete!

Keywords 4-skills, comprehensible input, meaningful output, corrective feedback

Primary author

Paul Raine (Ritsumeikan University)

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