I'm terrified about AI in general, but I'm trying to be open-minded about it. This is an interesting approach, I didn't realise we could use ChatGPT for this. I'm still such a novice and all I've tried (which is in my book) was a simple vocab text exercise, where I inputted some words and asked it to generate a text. This is useful for emergent language - in the old days I would spend ages making my own text or dialogue (for a gap fill) as revision, just for one class! And it would often not get used again.
Looking forward to more posts on using AI - I'm not teaching at the moment, so I'm a bit out of the loop on how people are using AI for teaching.
I've been using it to adapt/create personalized materials for my students for a while. I often use it to create conversation questions using my student's own emergent vocabulary, so it's straightforward for them to practice it.
Sometimes the sentences it comes up with are strange, but often, the questions/sentences are more "authentic" than something I would have created. It's basically a huge corpus, afterall! Not perfect by any means, but it's a great tool for language teachers to use. 💪
I had the same problem with it not being able to correct audio without a transcript, that's why I had to transcribe it (I know there are apps to do this but the free ones I found were horrible) so I don't know if it would be able to check an audio diary entry! I stopped using it months ago but otherwise it could be interesting.
I did something similar with German, but I would record myself talking, transcribe It and ask ChatGPT to check. It was able to correct mistakes but it messed up frequently, changing sentences that were correct just to rephrase them the way it wanted with no clear reason. As you said, I think this works better for beginners.
So happy to hear I wasn’t the only one having problems with getting helpful feedback. 😅 I like the idea of recording a monologue, as it seems it might be a bit better there (and at least you have the transcript to catch its mistakes). Might be interesting to record an audio diary once in a while, rather than write a journal entry?
I'm terrified about AI in general, but I'm trying to be open-minded about it. This is an interesting approach, I didn't realise we could use ChatGPT for this. I'm still such a novice and all I've tried (which is in my book) was a simple vocab text exercise, where I inputted some words and asked it to generate a text. This is useful for emergent language - in the old days I would spend ages making my own text or dialogue (for a gap fill) as revision, just for one class! And it would often not get used again.
Looking forward to more posts on using AI - I'm not teaching at the moment, so I'm a bit out of the loop on how people are using AI for teaching.
I've been using it to adapt/create personalized materials for my students for a while. I often use it to create conversation questions using my student's own emergent vocabulary, so it's straightforward for them to practice it.
Sometimes the sentences it comes up with are strange, but often, the questions/sentences are more "authentic" than something I would have created. It's basically a huge corpus, afterall! Not perfect by any means, but it's a great tool for language teachers to use. 💪
I had the same problem with it not being able to correct audio without a transcript, that's why I had to transcribe it (I know there are apps to do this but the free ones I found were horrible) so I don't know if it would be able to check an audio diary entry! I stopped using it months ago but otherwise it could be interesting.
Very good to know! Thanks for the input!
I did something similar with German, but I would record myself talking, transcribe It and ask ChatGPT to check. It was able to correct mistakes but it messed up frequently, changing sentences that were correct just to rephrase them the way it wanted with no clear reason. As you said, I think this works better for beginners.
So happy to hear I wasn’t the only one having problems with getting helpful feedback. 😅 I like the idea of recording a monologue, as it seems it might be a bit better there (and at least you have the transcript to catch its mistakes). Might be interesting to record an audio diary once in a while, rather than write a journal entry?