The EL Gazette asks if Chat GPT is a 'friend or foe' - and looks at the application as 'a language teaching assistant':
The new generation chatbot, ChatGPT, can be a valuable aid to language learning. However, there are major issues to be aware of and challenges to both students’ and teachers’ digital competence, as outlined in a review by Lucas Kohnke and colleagues from the University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University...
Undoubtedly, however, this AI genie is well and truly out of the bottle. Teachers need to move fast to incorporate the use of ChatGPT into the language learning process in ways that draw on its strengths and minimises the drawbacks.
Teachers can use ChatGPT as an assistant in the classroom, demonstrating how to interact effectively using questions and prompts, and how to manage and respond to issues around accuracy of content, sources and cultural bias. Rather than avoiding the issues, teachers can plan tasks that use ChatGPT.
ChatGPT can also be used by both students and teachers to create specific plans; for example, “Can you create a vocabulary-building plan for me if I want to improve my nursing English.” Teachers might be especially interested in asking ChatGPT to help prepare for a job interview, for example by suggesting common questions, role-playing the interview and making suggestions for improving performance, such as making a response “more persuasive.”
ChatGPT language learning - E L Gazette
Young people are using it:
This month, Jeremy Howard, an artificial intelligence researcher, introduced an online chatbot called ChatGPT to his 7-year-old daughter. It had been released a few days earlier by OpenAI, one of the world’s most ambitious A.I. labs.
Over the next few days, Mr. Howard — a data scientist and professor whose work inspired the creation of ChatGPT and similar technologies — came to see the chatbot as a new kind of personal tutor. It could teach his daughter math, science and English, not to mention a few other important lessons. Chief among them: Do not believe everything you are told. “It is a thrill to see her learn like this,” he said. “But I also told her: Don’t trust everything it gives you. It can make mistakes.” ...
Just as Mr. Howard hoped that his daughter would learn not to trust everything she read on the internet, he hoped society would learn the same lesson. “You could program millions of these bots to appear like humans, having conversations designed to convince people of a particular point of view” he said. “I have warned about this for years. Now it is obvious that this is just waiting to happen.”
The New Chatbots Could Change the World. Can You Trust Them? - The New York Times
What about learning a language?
And English?
ChatGPT Tutorial - How to use Chat GPT for Learning and Practicing English - YouTube
From a school in London:
A teacher asks ChatGPT:
How to use ChatGPT to Learn English | Helen Doron
With some more specific tips:
5 Ways for Teachers to Use ChatGPT - The Daring English Teacher
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