Generative AI as a Tool in Language Teaching

Abstract

The public release of ChatGPT by OpenAI in November 2022, and the subsequent release of a plethora of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools by different technology companies, has led to intense wonder, surprise, excitement, concern, and worry about their capabilities (Moorhouse, 2024). These tools offer the potential to assist language teachers in helping their learners achieve their language learning goals, and, at the same time, risk disrupting language teaching and learning processes, the teaching profession, and possibly the instrumental needs to learn foreign languages (Jeon & Lee, 2023; Moorhouse & Kohnke, 2024).