Comments on: Using ChatGPT to Design Language Material and Exercises

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 08:54:22 +0000

This tool plays a big role for the language educators and will do the same in the future. I have used it several times and if I were to compare my own generated texts and that I used ChatGPT and then edited them, I can testify that ChatGPT edited texts have best grammar, spellings, chronology of materials and formal language.
Again, It cannot really give exactly and correct 100% answers as I had to correct some stuffs but indeed it made my work more easier. My concern is if students keep on relying on AIChatGPT will they be able to use their normal and personal skills?

By: Fred

Fred — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 20:04:07 +0000

In reply to Esther. Thanks for clarifying this! Yes I did over step by saying any language. Hopefully this gets addressed when they update to gpt4.

By: Esther

Esther — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 01:35:50 +0000

unfortunately although you write “any language” several times, Chat GPT cannot communicate in all languages. It certainly can’t write in the language I teach, Yiddish, though it claims it can. I suspect there would be other less widely spoken languages it doesn’t yet “know” as well. It might be to do with how well machine translation has been developed for a language.

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 18:42:16 +0000

In case you’re interested there are several tools that allow you to detect of if chatgpt was used to create a text (e.g. https://www.zerogpt.com/ ). That being said as you allude to here, I think it would be interesting to explore how ChatGPT is integrated into assessments. For example, as Domingo mentioned above， ChatGPT could simply be used as a chat bot for your students. You could ask students to have a conversation with ChatGPT about their favorite book and then copy and paste the conversation into a word document and submit it as an assignment. This would allow students to learn to use the tool, give them extra practice, and provide teachers with evidence of language use in a way that leverages the tool for learning rather than to cheat.

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 18:36:30 +0000

In reply to Domingo. Yes, it can be used to carry out a dialog, though I'd recommend providing students with some scaffolding in the form of a goal. For example, you might want to say something like "Ask chatgpt to have a conversation with you about travel and to focus on strategies for booking a hotel" and then chatgpt will start a conversation around this topic. Further you could have your students tailor the conversation to their level.

By: Domingo

Domingo — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 14:37:03 +0000

I wonder, after reading here ChatGPT was a way to communicate with the teacher (which I understand was written by the app), if it could be used to have virtual conversations in the language between the app and the student? Can this app carry out a dialog or does it just write texts?

By: francoise

francoise — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 12:25:46 +0000

Thank you for the article. I have just read about this new tool and I agree with you: we should use it in our class instead of fearing it ! I am a French language teacher, teaching at A1, A2 levels. I can imagine how much I will need to change the current assessment of my courses. I will also need to see how to make this tool an ally to my courses. I like the challenge. I hope the language teachers community will share their practices in order to face the entrance of IA in our courses !