Teachers' insights
Social Skills Vs Artificial Intelligence: Can They Converse in Language Learning?
Flor de María Vila - 0 Social skills are inherent in every human relationship and go along with language when expressing needs, feelings requests, wishes, you name it. Furthermore, human interactions always involve verbal and nonverbal communication codes that add meaning according to the context. Virtuality has been accused of being irreconcilable with social skills development, but is it so? Can we turn Artificial Intelligence...
The last two years have seen the beginning of a new era. Specifically in relation to education and technology, we are witnessing how the enormous potential of ICTs has started to materialize. Artificial intelligence, despite not being a new thing, is becoming a household topic due to a revolution called ChatGPT. How can new technologies help students of a...
Teachers' insights
Are we Ready to Deal With the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Language Teaching?
María de la Lama - 1 The incursion of artificial intelligence in language learning should lead us to reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of our traditional teaching processes, considering the important benefits that new technological resources bring to language learning.
In addition to the promise of making faster progress in language proficiency with less effort, AI has the following strengths for language learning: Language learning...
In 2022 most Peruvian students returned to face-to-face classes. However, the number of pupils enrolled decreased significantly (1). This year the situation seems somewhat better; however, a major problem lies in wait for attention. We need to close the gap caused by the learning loss (2) that came to pass during reign of the virus. To do this, it...
How many times have you heard these expressions from your students? It has been over a year, and I already forgot what I learned.
I have good grammar knowledge, but I do not understand much of a conversation.
I studied English for two and a half years and cannot speak fluently.
I do not like the English course...
The Covid-19 pandemic, from which we are just emerging, disrupted the form and practice of formal education at all its conventions and levels. As never before, we teachers had to use our soft skills even to get in touch with our students and capture and keep their attention, as well as to help them acquire knowledge and develop their...
Centro de Idiomas de la Universidad del Pacifico is pleased to present our Research Group, which was created with the objective of being a place for reflection and debate on the pedagogical task in the field of language teaching. Within our initial activities, today we share with you the creation of the blog that we have nominated Language Teaching Bloggers.