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AI, Digital Teaching and 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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  • A Positive Approach to Teaching German
     Positive Foreign Language Didactics: How to make the most of learners’ strengths and the latest research findings

    Anyone who’s taught youngsters will certainly confirm several of the observations listed here—and probably add some more. But learning a foreign language isn’t always easy for grownups either, as teachers in adult education—and adult learners—know all too well. We need to be in the right frame of mind—otherwise learning can be a painstaking ordeal!

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    A yellow smiley face surrounded by blue, crumpled sticky notes with sad smiley faces on them. © Colourbox

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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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    Hand with a red pencil correcting a text © Getty Images

  • 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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    Das Internet bringt die Welt an den Schreibtisch. © Colourbox

  • Practical tips
     Using Digital Tasks for Action-Oriented Language Learning

    “Too complicated”, “too much lost time” or “I don’t have any control over what my pupils are doing there” – this is how some teachers spontaneously react to the idea of using task-based language learning in a digital context.

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    A teacher supervises the digital learning of his pupils © Colourbox

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