Exploring the Effectiveness of a Symbiotic Human-Machine Collaborative Model in College English Teaching
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https://doi.org/10.65170/jtr.v1i2.24Keywords:
Symbiosis Theory; Human–Machine Collaboration; College English; InterviewsAbstract
With the latest progress and extensive application of AI in recent years, the educational sector has never experienced such a huge transformation. As a new teaching mode based on artificial intelligence technology and teacher’s subject knowledge that has been applied to College English classroom, human-machine collaboration teaching model has been applied to English classroom. This study is based on theory of symbiosis to establish and practice a “teacher-student-machine” human-machine teaching model applicable to college English teaching. The experiment continued for 12 weeks, pre-test and post-test were carried out to compare students’ academic performance and deep interviews of one teacher and nine students from experimental group were made to collect their opinions and comments about this teaching model. The above results are found to illustrate that this type of model can not only effectively enhance students’ English grade, but also stimulate teachers’ professional development and role mutation, and initially construct teachers, students and intelligent machine’s mutual-beneficial and symbiosis teaching ecosystem.
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