With the affordances of advanced technologies, machine translation tools (MTT), such as Google Translate, have been created and widely used to facilitate communication between people from different language backgrounds. The last decade has also witnessed the employment of MTT by English as a Foreign Language learners to assist their studies at university. Such use of MTT is regarded as a...
In an attempt to explore the linguistic features in the headlines of fake news, this study selected a sample of 383 fake news articles (Clarke et al., 2021) covered by the SEC’s enforcement action issued on April 10, 2017 (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission 2017). Through building a corpus for headlines of fictitious news stories, this study was able to conduct both lexical and pragmatic...
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools, such as ChatGPT, are increasingly pervasive in society and helpful aid for education, but they also have problems. Although AI tools may help students gather information and generate ideas, there is a concern about whether GenAI may deprive them of opportunities to research widely and think critically independently. This study discusses the...
The rise of digital technology in educational settings from its formative years in the 1980s to its current iteration has seemed inexorable and, in recent months, exponential. Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models are now ubiquitous topics of debate when discussing ethical and moral concerns in education. This presentation will begin by examining the ethical and moral issues...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has now emerged as a transformative force in various sectors of our lives, including academia. Machine translation has developed to the point that few students now own an electronic dictionary in tertiary education which propels the use of MT and AI tools from web-based tools and smartphone applications. Hence, the majority of Japanese universities and colleges now...
This presentation covers the technology and pedagogy behind MiMi, an AI-powered speaking assistant based on generative AI, speech recognition, and text-to-speech technologies. It will review the accuracy and efficacy of GenAI Assistants, including the pedagogy that underpins them, their impact on student motivation, and how they can be used to assess students’ language ability. The...
This qualitative study examines the effectiveness of integrating ChatGPT, a large language model-based chatbot, into a first-year college academic writing class with five student participants. The students attended a lecture on ChatGPT usage and read an article on crafting effective prompts. Their reflections on using ChatGPT offer insights into its impact on their writing process and...
