With the increased interest in integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into language education, this practice-based research project explored the use of ChatGPT's audio functionality to enhance Japanese students' oral communication skills. Japanese university students often complain that they have little chance to practice their English skills. To address this issue, the following research...
The recent development of neural machine translation has raised new questions regarding human-machine tandem translation, with machine translation post-editing (MTPE) being one of the key issues. To address the gap created by the lack of process-oriented post-editing (PE) observations via neural machine translation systems, the current project explored post-editing processes undertaken by...
This presentation details affordances and limitations of using AI voice chatbots for oral proficiency development. In the past year, voice-input functionality was added to OpenAI’s widely known ChatGPT4 model, and there has been a steep increase in tools that enable users to improve aspects of oral proficiency through AI (e.g., ELSA AI, LangAI, TalkPal, and many others). In this presentation,...
In recent years it has been a daunting task for teachers and educators alike to grasp the concept of AI in higher education. In our case we felt challenged about whether or not we should implement AI into our language learning program with so many unknowns. We soon realized a lack of informative classroom research into practices for adopting AI as an effective learning tool in the language...
With the development of new technologies, the performance of English grammar checkers has improved significantly in recent years. However, the performance of Chinese grammar checkers is still not satisfactory. Although there are some new Chinese grammar checkers, their performance is still not widely accepted. Although OpenAI ChatGPT includes Chinese language data, few studies have...
