Jiang Ruihong
College of Humanities and Arts, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics Pearl River College, Tianjin, China.
Front Psychol. 2022 Nov 16;13:1049401. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1049401. eCollection 2022.
The booming Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides fertile ground for AI in education. So far, few reviews have been deployed to explore how AI empowers English as Foreign Language (EFL) teaching and learning. This study attempts to give a brief yet profound overview of AI in the EFL context by summarizing and delineating six dominant forms of AI application, including Automatic Evaluation Systems, Neural Machine Translation Tools, Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs), AI Chatting Robots, Intelligent Virtual Environment, and Affective Computing (AC) in ITSs. The review furthermore uncovers a current paucity of research on applying AC in the EFL context and exploring pedagogical and ethical implications of AI in the EFL context. Ultimately, challenges from technical and teachers' perspectives, as well as future research directions, are illuminated, hopefully proffering new insights for the future study.
蓬勃发展的人工智能为教育领域的人工智能提供了肥沃的土壤。到目前为止，很少有综述被用于探讨人工智能如何赋能外语教学与学习。本研究试图通过总结和描述人工智能应用的六种主要形式，对在外语环境中的人工智能进行简要而深刻的概述，这六种形式包括自动评估系统、神经机器翻译工具、智能辅导系统、人工智能聊天机器人、智能虚拟环境以及智能辅导系统中的情感计算。该综述还揭示了目前在外语环境中应用情感计算以及探索人工智能在外语环境中的教学和伦理意义方面的研究匮乏。最终，从技术和教师角度提出了挑战以及未来的研究方向，希望能为未来的研究提供新的见解。
