This week the ‘Thinking in English’ Community is talking about AI in language learning!!
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made a huge impact in many parts of our lives. One potential use for this technology is in language learning, with many use cases!
Teachers and students alike can use AI to great effect, but is it all good? Here are some first conditional statements about AI in language learning. Do you agree with them?
Here are 10 conversation questions to get you talking about AI in language learning!
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Conversation Questions: Learning Language with AI!
For each statement, how far do you agree, or disagree and why?
- 1. If you use AI, you will learn a language quickly.
- 2. If teachers use AI, they will be able to give more personalised support to students.
- 3. If AI continues to develop, it will change how we learn everything.
- 4. If you use AI to write for you, you will get into trouble.
- 5. If AI translation keeps improving, no one will ever learn new languages.
- 6. If AI continues to improve, it will take over most teaching jobs.
- 7. If you practice with an AI speaking tool, you will become fluent.
- 8. if schools adopt AI, they will offer more effective language learning.
- 9. If AI keeps advancing, the world will look very different.
- 10. “AI might be a powerful technology, but things won’t get better simply by adding AI.” – Vivienne Ming – What do you think of this quote?
Vocabulary
- AI
- (short for Artificial Intelligence) the use or study of computer systems or machines that have some of the qualities that the human brain has
- Personalised
- something that has been made for a particular person
- Develop
- to grow or change into a more advanced, larger, or stronger form
- Fluent
- When a person is fluent, they can speak a language easily, well, and quickly
- Adopt
- an agreement in an argument in which the people involved reduce their demands or change their opinion in order to agree
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Model Answers & Vocabulary
To help you prepare for the Thinking in English conversation club this week, the wonderful English tutor Thomas Brock has created vocabulary lists and some model answers.
The model answers are split into intermediate, upper-intermediate, and advanced level responses. Hopefully this will give you an idea on the differences in quality between intermediate and advanced response, and perhaps inspire your own answers to these questions!
B1 (Intermediate)
Vocabulary
Model Answers
B2 (Upper Intermediate)
Vocabulary
Model Answers
C1 (Advanced Level)
Vocabulary
Model Answers
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