Designing conflict-based communicative tasks in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language with ChatGPT

TL;DR

This paper explores how ChatGPT can assist in designing conflict-based communicative tasks for teaching Chinese as a foreign language, highlighting interaction dynamics and impacts on course development.

Contribution

It introduces a novel application of ChatGPT in developing language teaching tasks, emphasizing its role in enhancing interactive and conflict-based learning strategies.

Findings

ChatGPT effectively aids in designing communicative tasks.

Use of ChatGPT influences the interaction dynamics between teachers and AI.

The approach improves engagement and task quality in language teaching.

Abstract

In developing the teaching program for a course in Oral Expression in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language at the university level, the teacher designs communicative tasks based on conflicts to encourage learners to engage in interactive dynamics and develop their oral interaction skills. During the design of these tasks, the teacher uses ChatGPT to assist in finalizing the program. This article aims to present the key characteristics of the interactions between the teacher and ChatGPT during this program development process, as well as to examine the use of ChatGPT and its impacts in this specific context.