AI and Video Tools in Language Learning

Abstract

This session shares instructional reflections on the use of AI and video tools to facilitate language learning. Based on the instructor’s (also, the author’s of this session) experience, AI tools were used with a group of graduate language student-teachers and a group of undergraduate students to improve their academic writing skills as a feedback tool, while video tools were adopted in an undergraduate language course to facilitate an intercultural and linguistic exchange. The session will overview the pedagogical rationale for these two instructional innovations and their corresponding design. It will discuss the benefits and disadvantages that each innovation brings and invite the audience to develop their own ideas about the possible use of these technologies in their own language classes. It will end with lessons learned by the instructor by trying new technologies with various groups of students.

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