ҮЗДІКСІЗ ПЕДАГОГИКАЛЫҚ БІЛІМ БЕРУ: ӨЗЕКТІ ПРОБЛЕМАЛАРЫ
ЖӘНЕ ПЕРСПЕКТИВАЛАРЫ
НЕПРЕРЫВНОЕ ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКОЕ ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ:
АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ И ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ
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The development of neural networks and chatbots is currently booming in many areas of
life, including education. Every day there are more and more of these
forms of artificial
intelligence. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools generate lesson plans, presentations, images, texts,
questions, mind maps and other teaching materials in a matter of seconds at the user's request.
Chatbots are able to hold a conversation, answer questions, comment on the work done and also
make recommendations on how it can be improved. This has led to legitimate concerns among
many teachers: As students can use AI to write essays and complete
other tasks to practise
language skills, there is no point in giving homework. It is also assumed that AI will be able to
replace teachers in the future, who will then be out of a job. This raises the question: can a foreign
language teacher not only resist the risks and threats of digitalisation, but also turn artificial
intelligence into an assistant and friend and make the learning process more qualitative, effective
and interesting thanks to the achievements of science and technology? In this paper, the authors
try to understand this problem and also give examples of work with students learning a foreign
language in the context of AI development.
The aimis to analyse the capabilities of AI in teaching a foreign language
to students from
different areas of vocational education.
Theoretical and empirical research methods were used in writing the article. An analysis of
the scientific and methodological literature was carried out, which deals with the study of the use
of artificial intelligence in education from the point of view of opportunities and possible risks.
Artificial intelligence services were analysed in terms of their functionality and potential for use
in foreign language teaching. Empirical experiences from working with AI services in practical
foreign language teaching with students from different areas of vocational training were used to
create tasks based on AI.
The introduction of AI into the educational process is an inevitable consequence of the
digitalisation of education. The scientific and methodological literature
states that many
professions are changing as a result of this digitalisation, including the profession of foreign
language teacher. The directions for such a transformation are “the development of online
education platforms, the replacement of “live” specialists with virtual reality and artificial
intelligence” [1, p. 22]. The teacher as a “talking head” or knowledge mediator, who is not the
only possible
means and channel of learning, is losing importance and relevance. New roles and
functions are emerging - tutor, moderator, developer of educational pathways, organiser of project-
based learning, coordinator of
online educational platforms, games teacher [2, p. 43].
The first work in the field of AI began in the middle of the last century. The pioneer of
research in this direction was Alan Turing, although philosophers and mathematicians had already
expressed certain ideas in the Middle Ages. But it was not until the middle of the last century that
this direction really began to take shape.
The appearance of works on AI was preceded by research into human nature, the way we
understand the world around us, the possibilities of the thought process and other areas. The first
computers and algorithms also appeared at this time.
In other words, the foundation was laid for a
new direction in research.
in 1950, Alan Turing published an essay in which he posed questions about the capabilities
of future machines and whether they could surpass humans in terms of intelligence. It was this
scientist who developed the procedure that was later named in his honour: the Turing test.
Following the publication of the English scientist's work, new research was carried out in the field
of AI.
According to Turing, only a machine that cannot be distinguished from a human when
communicating can be recognised as thinking. Around the same time as the scientist's paper, a
concept called Baby Machine was born. It envisaged the progressive development of AI and the
creation of machines whose thought processes would initially be trained at the level of a child and