{"id":11352,"date":"2024-06-23T19:55:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T02:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=11352"},"modified":"2024-06-23T19:55:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T02:55:05","slug":"a1-language-learning-with-ai-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2024\/06\/23\/a1-language-learning-with-ai-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"A1 &#8211; Language Learning with AI Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">I teach Grade 6 French Immersion in semi-rural Newfoundland. Like many who teach second languages in Canada and beyond, it is very challenging to find authentic opportunities for my students to talk, learn, and engage in their &#8220;target language&#8221;. There are many digital tools that purport to help with this, but most lack the responsiveness and personal touch that authentic language learning relies on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">VR, AI, and even basic videoconferencing programs offer many opportunities to bring authentic language experiences into the classroom (and into students&#8217; hands, wherever they are). For this project, I have created a presentation to outline the needs of second-language learners, and propose how AI may, or may not, be able to help meet these goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/design\/DAGI_iSG30Y\/E3PLkjfN08FGTQsfc1kAOA\/view?utm_content=DAGI_iSG30Y&amp;utm_campaign=designshare&amp;utm_medium=link&amp;utm_source=editor\">AI Tools for Second Language Learners<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I teach Grade 6 French Immersion in semi-rural Newfoundland. Like many who teach second languages in Canada and beyond, it is very challenging to find&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2024\/06\/23\/a1-language-learning-with-ai-tools\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A1 &#8211; Language Learning with AI Tools<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":101705,"featured_media":11129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[103,43,31,40,24],"class_list":["post-11352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a1-analyses","tag-ai","tag-education","tag-mobile-education","tag-mobile-learning","tag-mobile-technologies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11354,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11352\/revisions\/11354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}