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The Future of Language Learning

Technology will make the teacher's tasks easier, make lessons more effective and interesting, and give all the people better chances to learn, understand and utilize foreign languages. Is that really true? What do we have to consider, discuss as a society or where is social governance necessary?

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  • Artificial intelligence in foreign language learning
    AI Can’t Cut It: Correcting Language Learners’ Writing Still Has to Be Done by Hand

    Many providers of AI writing assistants promise “high-quality writing at the push of a button”. Proofreading and editing software is now capable of instantly correcting reams of text and providing suggested improvements. But how good are these AI editors, and do they help foreign language learners learn to write well themselves?

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  • Artificial intelligence in foreign language learning
    How AI software is making its way into language learning

    AI technology is now omnipresent and it’s hard to imagine teaching a foreign language these days without it. Here’s a look at the emerging field of natural language processing and potential uses (and abuses) of AI tools in language courses.

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    Walls of binary codes forming transmission lines for impulses: digital information is represented as being analogous to a nerve cell. © Adobe Stock

  • Digitization and multilingualism
    "The world is language": Why language learning is worthwhile even in the digital age

    Innovative technology helps us communicate in different languages. Will translation apps make learning a foreign language superfluous? How can we rekindle the desire to learn languages? Professors M. Sambanis and H. Böttger share some fascinating findings from neuroscience research on language learning.

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  • AI in schools
    “Mistakes are now corrected by AI”

    Last year, teacher Hendrik Haverkamp explained in DIE ZEIT how ChatGPT is transforming teaching. What has happened since then? A discussion about the time-saving benefits of artificial intelligence and how it may spell the end of homework.

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