Features of the use of chatbots in teaching foreign languages to students of a non-linguistic university (using the example of English)

Elvira Nikolaevna Didenko; Maia Aleksandrovna Egorova; Margarita Dmitrievna Lagutkina

doi:10.30853/phil20240304

Original research article
July 5, 2024
Open access

Features of the use of chatbots in teaching foreign languages to students of a non-linguistic university (using the example of English)

E. N. Didenko
M. A. Egorova
M. D. Lagutkina

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to determine the possibilities of using chatbots when teaching foreign languages to students of a non–linguistic university using the example of English. The article examines the features of the use of information and communication technologies on the example of chatbots in the formation of communicative competence in English among students studying English as a foreign language in a non-linguistic university. The scientific novelty of the study is that it proves that chatbots can be customized to the individual needs of each student, which provides a personalized approach to learning and helps students achieve better results. As a result of the study, it was found that chatbots communicate with users in a "live" language, they play an important role in the methodology of teaching a foreign language and create a quasi-conversation. The architecture of chatbots combines a language model and computational algorithms to simulate informal communication. Using the example of two chatbots, algorithms for using artificial intelligence are shown in terms of their methodological potential.

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