In full chat generative pre-trained transformer, is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by the Microsoft-supported company OpenAI, which as a cutting-edge AI large language model is not only capable of natural language processing or understanding natural language but also generating coherent, human speech-like, and contextually relevant replies and interactions in a chat-like or conversational way based on what it has learned from training data and the prompts the interactor has given to it ( Xue et al., 2023 AU114: The citation "Xue et al., 2023" matches multiple references. Please add letters (e.g. "Smith 2000a"), or additional authors to the citation, to uniquely match references and citations. ).
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Demystifying the Unknown: ChatGPT and Foreign Language Classrooms in the Voices of EFL Teachers
Copyright: © 2024
|Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-0353-5.ch004
Abstract
Since its introduction, artificial intelligence (AI) has had inevitable effects on education including foreign language learning. ChatGPT, as the most advanced form of AI, has brought about many concerns and opportunities for both language teachers and learners. This chapter tries to probe more deeply into the concerns expressed over the use of ChatGPT in foreign language classrooms in the voices of teachers with an emphasis on finding ways to address those concerns. The results of the inductive analysis of interview data revealed a new concern in addition to the previously identified concerns, i.e. threats to teachers' and students' creativity. It is concluded that ChatGPT, with all its differences, can be regarded as a disrupter of a constant, traditional routine rather than a disrupter of education itself and that, to deal with it, like any other new technology, the only way ahead of teachers is adaptation and changing threats into opportunities.