AI Tools of Magic School's Character Chatbot and Writing Feedback Tool in Language Learning and Teaching 👩🏻‍💻

 

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)  by Books18 is licenced to use Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.0 

    Hello my dear readers! This post is my last blog post as our course has come to an end unfortunately. The topic of the last blog post is AI tool use in language learning and teaching. Me and my companion on this work, Alperen used the AI tools named Magic School's Character Chatbot and Writing Feedback. We were supposed to chat with an important figure and we chose William Shakespeare. We asked "the AI Shakespeare" ten questions, then we wrote down a report about it. Finally, we utilized the Feedback tool to receive comments and improve our report. 

  

    I believe that these AI tools can be beneficial in terms of academic writing works as it has many writing-focused tools in it such as text rewriter, text leveler and text proofreader. For our work, I think being able to reach and ask any question to the influential historical figures was a quite creative and interactive way of learning and gaining knowledge about the topic of choice. However, the tools need some improvements regarding their technical issues because we encountered some problems about getting answers from the AI character. Also, the answers were too long even if we specified that we wanted shorter ones. 

    Considering these AI-based tools' future, I suppose their role in language classes is going to be major which requires teachers to integrate many of those tools into their practice. Nowadays, with the help of AI tools, a virtual reality atmosphere can be created for communicative development of the learners; thus, they can interact with anyone anywhere at any language. Yet, no matter how prevalent these tools are, without the required equipment and softwares, not all learners can have the chance to use them effectively. 

    Ultimately, it is apparent that AI tools are the present and the future language learning and teaching preferences. With their eventual dominance, many language learners and teachers are going to take advantage of them in various innovative ways. 

     The link of our chat with William Shakespeare here and the link of our report here