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Application of ChatGPT in College Students' Autonomous Oral English Learning

Author(s)

Hua Liu

Affiliation(s)

School of Foreign Studies, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, Jinan, Shandong, China

Abstract

In the context of globalization and educational digitalization, oral English proficiency has become an essential literacy for college students, which is not only an important embodiment of cross-cultural communication ability, but also closely related to their academic development and career prospects. As a new type of generative AI tool, ChatGPT has gradually penetrated into the field of education in general, and oral English learning specially by virtue of its unique interactive nature and rich functional support, providing new horizons and means for solving the dilemmas of traditional oral English autonomous study.This paper adopts literature review and case analysis as research methods to explore the application value, specific scenarios, implementation paths, existing problems and optimization strategies of ChatGPT concerning the topic. It is suggested that ChatGPT can alleviate autonomous study dilemmas, meet personalized learning needs, enrich practice scenarios and cultivate autonomous learning ability of college students. Meanwhile, this tool also features scuh weaknesses as insufficient authenticity of productions, students' over-reliance, limited functional adaptability and lack of effective supervision in the application process. Consequently, the paper puts forward counter strategies such as enhancing the authenticity and naturalness of productions, reducing over-reliance of students on the tool, improving the adaptability and optimizing the supervision and guidance system. ChatGPT, with proper improvements, is expected to be a powerful and convenient tool in compensating the teaching system of oral English for college students.

Keywords

ChatGPT; College Oral English; Autonomous Learning; Application

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