Submit by Tom Daccord

[INTRO: A recent national report by the Watson Foundation found that teachers are using ChatGPT more than students and are using it to create new lesson ideas. To help out all of our teacher friends, we are offering a series of posts focused on practical ways that you can use ChatGPT to assist with own lesson design! Each post will focus on a practical  strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers. Here is the seventh part of our series:]

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Why ChatGPT for Language Studying?

ChatGPT can present personalised language instruction to college students and might adapt to their particular person wants, pursuits, and proficiency ranges. So, college students can leverage ChatGPT as a language follow accomplice.

The right way to use ChatGPT for Language Studying

For starters, ChatGPT will help enhance scholar vocabulary by offering synonyms, explaining phrase meanings, and suggesting applicable phrase selections in context. It will possibly even create tales with vocabulary lists. Moreover, college students can interact in a dialog with ChatGPT to follow their writing and talking expertise, and obtain suggestions on their language utilization. ChatGPT also can assist with grammar and syntax by revising sentences and offering explanations for grammatical guidelines. In all, ChatGPT can present explanations and suggestions in a number of methods, adapting to completely different studying kinds, and enabling differentiated instruction.

When developing ChatGPT prompts, with college students or by yourself, it is best to take into consideration what context could be essential to incorporate — ex. scholar’s age and language stage — to make sure that the responses are applicable for the extent and talents of your college students. 

ChatGPT Examples

Listed below are examples of how one can leverage ChatGPT for language studying, organized into three classes: 

1. Vocabulary enlargement and understanding

• Scholar Studying English 
  • Scholar: “I’m looking for a extra refined synonym for ‘eccentric.’ Are you able to counsel an acceptable various?”
  • ChatGPT: “Definitely! A extra refined synonym for ‘eccentric’ is ‘quirky.’ It describes somebody or one thing with unconventional and distinctive habits or traits. For instance, ‘Her sense of trend is quirky, with mismatched patterns and vibrant colours that make her stand out in a crowd’.”
• Scholar Studying Spanish 
  • Scholar: “Are you able to present a synonym for ‘lograr’ in Spanish that expresses a better stage of accomplishment?”
  • ChatGPT: “Definitely! A extra refined synonym for ‘lograr’ is ‘conseguir,’ which suggests ‘to attain’ or ‘to achieve.’ For instance, ‘Ella consiguió el primer puesto en la competencia.’ (She achieved/attained the primary place within the competitors.)”
• Story creation with vocabulary listing
  • Scholar: “Please write me a 700 phrase story in [INCLUDE LANGUAGE] at [INCLUDE LEVEL] about [CHOOSE A TOPIC]. On the finish of the story please embrace a vocabulary listing for all phrases at [INCLUDE LEVEL] and clarify phonetically how one can pronounce them.”
  • For instance:  “Please write me a 700 phrase story fully in Spanish for a Degree 3 scholar about animals within the wild. On the finish of the story please embrace a vocabulary listing for all phrases at stage Spanish 3 and clarify phonetically how one can pronounce them.”

2. Dialog follow

• Scholar: “I want to interact in a dialog with you in Spanish. I’m a 17 year-old who has studied Spanish for 3 years and am now taking a Spanish Degree 4 course at my highschool. I want to focus on customs in Mexico.  Please present me with a distinct cultural instance from Mexico in every response and supply me with a query to have interaction me in dialog.”
• ChatGPT:

• Scholar: I want to interact in a dialog with you in French. I’m a 16 year-old who has studied French for 18 months and am now taking French II at my highschool. I want to follow reflexive verbs.  So, ask me a query about my life in school or at dwelling that may immediate me to make use of a typical reflexive verb. (Don’t reply the query you present me.) After I’ve responded to your query, please right any errors I make in my response. 
• ChatGPT: 

3. Grammar and Syntax

• Spanish Subjunctive:
  • Scholar: “I’m uncertain concerning the right subjunctive type of the verb ‘tener’ on this sentence: Que tienes un buen cita. Are you able to assist me?”

• Mandarin Chinese language Measure Phrases
  • Scholar: ”I’m confused about when to make use of measure phrases in Mandarin Chinese language. May you clarify their utilization and supply examples of how I’d describe issues in my home like furnishings?”

Understand that ChatGPT could not all the time reply precisely as you anticipate. Nevertheless, with a little bit of creativity and efficient prompts, ChatGPT generally is a helpful and interesting instrument for language studying together with your college students! If you want to study extra about AI and ChatGPT in schooling alongside fellow educators please check out our model new AI Cohort.

–by Tom Daccord, with assist from ChatGPT