AI in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

✍ Scribed by Marcel Danesi

• Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 160
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

How will AI affect the human teacher and the overall structure of foreign
language teaching? Traditional pedagogy has often seemed incapable of
satisfying the individualized needs of learners; nevertheless, the teacher as part
of the learning system (wherever and however it occurs) cannot be replaced.
Rather, AI provides the teacher with a means to furnish individualized,
innovative, and cooperative learning instruction. Overall, the fact is that we can no longer, as language teachers, ignore the ever-evolving technologies, or
else we will truly be left behind. AI is not going to replace teachers, but
teachers who use AI are likely going to gradually replace those who do not.
As entrepreneur Mark Cuban has bluntly put it (in Ringelberg 2023):
“Whatever you are studying right now, if you are not getting up to speed on
Deep Learning, neural networks, etc., you lose. We are going through the
process where software will automate software, automation will automate
automation.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Chapter 1
Technology in Foreign Language Teaching
Prologue
The Language Laboratory
The Audio-Lingual Method
The Role of the Native Language
The Digital Language Laboratory
Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching
CALL Pedagogy
The Role of the Teacher
AI in Foreign Language Teaching
Generative AI
General Features
Caveats
The Contemporary Language Classroom
Classrooms without Walls
A Partnership
Epilogue
Chapter 2
Foreign Language Learning
Prologue
Theories and Models
Interlanguage Theory
The Input Hypothesis
Universal Grammar Theory
Pragmatic Models
Learning Variables
Motivational Factors
Enhancing Motivation
Machine Learning
Chatbots
Conceptualization
Epilogue
Chapter 3
Developing Linguistic Competence
Prologue
Pronunciation and Spelling
Listening and Speaking
Writing
Grammar
Words and Sentences
Grammar and Usage
Vocabulary
Polysemy
Thematic Vocabulary
Epilogue
Chapter 4
Promoting Communicative Competence
Prologue
Communicating in a Foreign Language
Communicative Competence
Role of Context
Conversations
Structure of Conversations
Conversation Analysis
Interactional Verisimilitude
Focused Interactions
Interactional Pedagogy
Epilogue
Chapter 5
Enhancing Conceptual Competence
Prologue
Conceptual Fluency
Cultural Meanings
Calquing
Metaphorical Competence
Conceptual Metaphor
Metonymy and Irony
Contrastive Conceptual Analysis
Translation Analysis
Metaphor Plugin
Epilogue
Chapter 6
Blended Foreign Language Teaching
Prologue
The Learner
The Main Competencies
Learner-Chatbot Interactions
The Teacher
Learner-Centric Pedagogy
A Teaching Assistant
The Course
Blended Pedagogy
A Paradigm Shift
Epilogue
Appendix
Language Learning Apps
Babbel
DALL-E
Duolingo
Rosetta Stone
Memrise
Busuu
Drops
Mondly
References
Index
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