To boldly go… from a dictogloss study to a machine learning project for language teaching and learning.
Résumé
Valued by employers in our globalized societies, plurilingual communication skills are essential
for international mobility. It is therefore vital to develop pedagogical techniques that encourage
the acquisition of linguistic and cultural skills, since future job candidates who possess these will
be more successful in professional networking.
As we boldly venture into the Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIR), the job market is evolving
rapidly and the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues in our private and professional
lives. Consequently, the job market is even more competitive and many job candidates may
perhaps one day require career conversions. Accelerated language learning, with diagnostic
assessment and evaluation through human and machine interaction could serve as a potential
solution. Two decades of Information Technology (IT) development have yielded a plethora of
pedagogic language tools and resources; however, some argue that these tools remain tedious,
limited, dispersed or partitioned. In contrast, AI offers a single entry point into a world of
technological opportunities for impartial language assessment and diagnostic evaluation.
This presentation proposes to briefly explain how a three-year dictogloss study with third-year
Psychology students evolved into an innovative transversal project which focuses on human
interaction with AI, in order to yield standardized diagnostic assessments through real-time
personalized training of individual language learners.