Integration of AI-Technologies into ELT: A Brief Study

Abstract

This study investigates the potential of integrating generative artificial intelligence, specifically ChatGPT, into the learning and practice of non-native English speakers' four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing, in the context of the emergence of generative AI. By means of a case analysis applying the "instruction-reply" method, this study concludes that the combination and utilization of the nine core skills of generative AI, including natural language processing, adaptive learning, attention mechanism, zero-shot learning, pre-training models, speech recognition and synthesis, intelligent recommendation, reinforcement learning, and cross-lingual learning, have significant language learning assistance capabilities for the four skills. Nevertheless, the limitations are reflected in language mechanical phenomena, high usage thresholds, Chinese-English recognition differences, and fuzzy knowledge boundaries as well.