Using Human-generated Digital Resources to Supplement AI

Welcome to the penultimate issue in our series exploring considerations for how and when to use AI as a language learning and teaching partner.

This series was inspired by UNESCO's 2023 Guidance for Generative AI in Education and Research.

This week, we will explore how online resources, like pragmatics repositories, support language learners in understanding interpersonal and pragmatic patterns and expectations in the target language. These tools are excellent for verifying the veracity of the language and intercultural indicators that AI chatbots use (or don’t)!

Double-check AI Output with Pragmatics Repositories!

Here's an overview of available tools and suggestions on what they can help you achieve.

Ideas for Implementation

Three Ways to Use Pragmatics Repositories in Concert with AI

Collaborate: Share the video with a professional collaborator and explore a function together. Develop an activity for your learners in which they compare what they find on the pragmatics repository with what AI generates.
Model: Share the video with learners. Then, model how to create an exchange in the target language with AI and how to find out what it got right…and what it didn’t. For example, you might ask AI to create a request in Spanish and then go to pragmatics.uoregon.edu to verify how accurately it modeled direct and indirect requests.
Investigate: Keep a digital illustrated journal in which you gather both AI-generated language and the examples of language shared in pragmatics repositories. Take notes of what seems to be similar and what does not. You may choose to complete this activity on your own or with learners.

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