The capabilities and practical applications of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have advanced rapidly over recent years (Heift & Schulze, 2015). Foreign language education has already been dramatically impacted by these developments, as learners gain access to increasingly powerful AI tools capable not only of improving grammar and vocabulary choices in academic writing, but also of...
It is well acknowledged that the COVID-19 global pandemic has resulted in unignorable changes to almost every aspect of people’s life, including foreign language education (UNESCO, 2020). Different from traditional online education that is often planned ahead with preparation, the abrupt transition to online education during COVID-19 has placed great pressure on foreign language teachers...
Students need to understand different cultures across the world to gain intercultural communication skills and raise awareness. Therefore, this speaker asked a professor in Sri Lanka to proceed with a telecollaboration project. Based on the agreement with this professor, the project invited 16 first-year Japanese college students and 10 third-year Sri Lankan college students to participate for...
Despite the growing body of research on the pedagogical aspects of machine translation and ChatGPT in language learning, concerns have been raised about students relying on machine translation to avoid language learning and about ChatGPT increasing the risk of plagiarism and cheating. These concerns may be attributed in part to students' lack of literacy about machine translation and ChatGPT,...
