Applications of Genai In English Language Teaching and Learning: The Need For Practical Guidelines
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The emergence of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has significantly impacted language education, leading to unprecedented change in teaching and learning experiences. Large-scale Language Models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT-3.5/4, Google Gemini, and Microsoft’s Copilot capture the academia attention due to their capabilities to imitate human intelligence and produce various forms of outputs that could promisingly serve as teaching supplementary and transform learning processes. Recent research highlights the potential benefits of GenAI to assist teachers from the initial stage of planning and designing syllabi to assessing learning outcomes and providing personalized feedback (Javaid et al., 2023). Similarly, students’ language skills could be developed through the assistance of GenAI tools (Ou et al., 2024). However, alongside these benefits, the use of GenAI also raises several concerns regarding ethical and pedagogical appropriateness. This necessitates the provision of frameworks or guidelines to allow academic staff and students to use this AI technology ethically and responsibly. This paper explores the widespread application of GenAI in English language teaching and learning, leading to the need for timely and well-informed guidelines for such application in language classrooms. It also proposes a practical framework to guide students in responsibly and appropriately exploiting GenAI tools to their full potential.
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