Artificial intelligence and foreign language teaching: problems and solutions

Importance. The professional pedagogical community shows genuine interest in the use of generative artificial intelligence in teaching a foreign language. There is a need to generalize the accumulated experience, to define a methodology for an orderly search for solutions to the problems that arise.

Materials and Methods. The research material was a collective monograph edited Sysoyev P.V. (ed.) (2023). Foreign Language Teaching Based on Artificial Intelligence Technologies (Tambov, Publishing House “Derzhavinsky”, 132 p.). The ideas presented in it are integrated into the context of similar studies by other authors.

Results and Discussion. A comprehensive collective monograph analysis revealed its theoretical and practical significance. The terminological apparatus has been clarified, and the vectors of research on the artificial intelligence technologies’ integration into foreign language teaching have been outlined. The linguistic and didactic potential of chatbots is indicated. The possibilities and risks of using them are described. The importance of using corpus tools based on artificial intelligence in the educational process is shown. The role and place of advertising and media products developed on the basis of virtual and augmented reality technologies in teaching a foreign language, their potential for the development of socio-cultural competence of students are determined. The possibilities of using ChatGPT in the research activities of future teachers are described. The ways of teacher training for the competent use of artificial intelligence are revealed.

Conclusion. The authors of the monograph managed to summarize a set of various theoretical and applied data on the studied issues, organize and logically arrange the accumulated material in the form of a book that can become the basis for further research of the problems of using artificial intelligence outlined in it, as well as a source of professional knowledge for practitioners and future teachers.