Advanced Analytics and Deep Learning Models

AI promotes personalized and autonomous learning. With the integration of AI, students always have easy access to learning. They can study at their own pace and space. They can study at any place and time they wish to. Students can clear their doubts at their own speed and time with AI-powered chatbots or AI virtual personal assistants like Google Assistant and Siri, without being humiliated in front of the entire class. AI personalizes studies to meet the needs of individual students, resulting in increased efficiency. AI has the potential to personalize digital language learning make for each learner, catering to their individual needs.

The use of AI in education has paved the way for modern learning methods such as visualization, simulation, and web-based learning environments. Learners become more involved and engaged as a result of these new learning methods. Not only that, but AI also assists in the development and updating of lesson material, as well as customizing it for various learning goals and learners.

Evaluation is a time-consuming task that could be easily automated by the instructor using AI. It can automatically grade tests and even review essays, highlighting mistakes and recommending ways to prevent them in the future.

The innovative integration of AI in education broadens the ways of building multitude of constructive pedagogies to teaching and learning for students having learning disabilities. It also ensures access to education for physically challenged students like deaf or visually impaired. AI systems can be effectively trained to assist any group of special needs students.

If we look back in the timeline, we would realize that AI that we are living today was just a part of science fiction movies some years ago. Today, AI has become an inseparable part of our lives and it has made its space in almost all the spheres we can think of, right from business, banking, health, aviation to marketing, and now is slowly paving its way in the sphere of academics. AI in education is playing a significant role in augmenting teaching and learning. AI learning platforms facilitate autonomous learning, provides flexibility of space, pace, and time. Further, it facilitates personalized learning focusing on the learners’ interest areas and considering the factors such as strengths, weaknesses, interests, and cultural background. AI-integrated online learning has augmented second language education across the globe manifolds.

Despite of AI having an enormous potential of enhancing the teaching and learning of foreign or second language, it still have certain challenges which need to be addressed. According to Lovett, despite advances in translation technology, there have been questions regarding Google Translate’s grammatical accuracy and how it might be impacting the learner’s process of building proficiency [34]. Furthermore, NLP is a complicated process, and accurately capturing all linguistic information is difficult. Further, the voice recognition also needs adjustments as sometimes it cannot understand heavy accents, articulation speech impediments, and soft voices. Therefore, further studies can be done to identify the solutions to the above stated problems. In addition, further research can also be done to identify the impact of AI on personalized learning, the grammar of the target language and on the proficiency of the language learnt. Moreover, a study on assessing the efficiency of AI on grading and evaluation can also be done.

AI is slowly paving its way into the sphere of academics through various technologies like Machine Learning and NLP, and it is surely going to foster the teaching and learning of second and foreign languages in the days to come.

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