Exploring Applications of ChatGPT to English Language Teaching: Opportunities, Challenges, and Recommendations

Ilka Kostka, R. Toncelli
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By utilizing a massive corpus of textual data, large language models can generate unique human-like outputs to questions and interact with users in a natural conversational way. ChatGPT is one such platform, and since it emerged into the public consciousness in November 2022, it has generated both excitement and concern among educators. A growing body of scholarship has considered the pedagogical use of ChatGPT and its ability to enhance teachers’ roles (e.g., Kohnke et al., 2023; Rudolph et al., 2023). Scholars have also raised concerns about ChatGPT’s impact on academic integrity and scholarly publishing (Teng, 2023). Nonetheless, AI has existed for some time (Holmes & Tuomi, 2022) and, rather than a beginning of the end of education, it may guide educators into an era of pedagogical innovation (Heaven, 2023). In this paper, we explore the role of ChatGPT in English Language Teaching (ELT). We first provide background information about ChatGPT and its functions. We then draw from literature to describe current thinking on its benefits and challenges then describe how we have experimented with ChatGPT at our own university. We conclude by discussing implications for using ChatGPT in ELT and offering recommendations for future directions in teaching and research.
探讨ChatGPT在英语教学中的应用:机遇、挑战与建议
通过利用大量的文本数据语料库,大型语言模型可以生成独特的类似人类的问题输出,并以自然的会话方式与用户交互。ChatGPT就是这样一个平台,自2022年11月进入公众视野以来,它在教育工作者中引起了兴奋和担忧。越来越多的学者考虑了ChatGPT的教学使用及其增强教师角色的能力(例如,Kohnke等人,2023;Rudolph et al., 2023)。学者们也对ChatGPT对学术诚信和学术出版的影响表示担忧(Teng, 2023)。尽管如此,人工智能已经存在了一段时间(Holmes & Tuomi, 2022),它可能会引导教育工作者进入一个教学创新的时代,而不是教育结束的开始(Heaven, 2023)。本文探讨了聊天语言在英语教学中的作用。我们首先介绍ChatGPT及其功能的背景信息。然后,我们从文献中描述当前对其好处和挑战的思考,然后描述我们如何在我们自己的大学试验ChatGPT。最后,我们讨论了在英语教学中使用ChatGPT的意义,并对未来的教学和研究方向提出了建议。
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