AI in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

How will AI affect the human teacher and the overall structure of foreign language teaching? Traditional pedagogy has often seemed incapable of satisfying the individualized needs of learners; nevertheless, the teacher as part of the learning system (wherever and however it occurs) cannot be replaced. Rather, AI provides the teacher with a means to furnish individualized, innovative, and cooperative learning instruction. Overall, the fact is that we can no longer, as language teachers, ignore the ever-evolving technologies, or else we will truly be left behind. AI is not going to replace teachers, but teachers who use AI are likely going to gradually replace those who do not. As entrepreneur Mark Cuban has bluntly put it (in Ringelberg 2023): “Whatever you are studying right now, if you are not getting up to speed on Deep Learning, neural networks, etc., you lose. We are going through the process where software will automate software, automation will automate automation.