Generative AI 

Using ChatGPT:

ChatGPT provides a range of activities which can take the form of a casual conversation, a role-play, or various types of exercises to practice particular lexical or grammatical concepts. ChatGPT is free and allows users to have text-based or voice-based conversations (voice conversations are only available on the mobile apps for iOS and Android.)

Below is a list of suggestions for conversations or role play situations using ChatGPT: 

Note: you can specify a proficiency level such as A1, A2, B1, B2, etc. and ask to be corrected or not

• Act as [who] and ask me questions about [what]
  
  
• Imagine you’re [who] in [what situation]. Ask me [what to do or talk about]. Then give me feedback on how well I did and how I could improve.
  
  
• Act as an interviewer and ask me the interview questions for the position of [job]. Ask me a question and wait for my answer. Then ask another question. End the interview when I say ‘thank you for your time’. Provide feedback on how I performed.
  
  
• Help me practice my [speaking/listening/reading/writing] skills in [target language] by engaging in a role-play scenario.
  
  
• I want you to act as a language exchange partner and engage in a role-play scenario with me in [target language].
  
  
• Give me questions to ask in [target language] to practice [speaking/listening] skills.
  
  
• Help me practice my [speaking/listening] skills in [target language] by having a conversation about [topic].
  
  
• I want you to act as a language partner and ask me questions in [target language] about [topic].
  
  
• Can you give me some example questions and answers for a job interview in [target language]?
  
  
• Can we engage in a conversation about [topic] in [target language] to help me practice my language skills?
  
  
• Pretend you are a university student from [target country]. I will ask you a series of questions in [target language], and I’d like you to respond as if you were this student.
  
  
• Let’s pretend you are a tour company in [target country] called [name of company]. I will pretend to be a tourist. I will ask you a series of questions in [target language], and I’d like you to respond as if you were human. 
  
  
•  Let’s pretend you are at a restaurant in [city] called [name]. I will pretend to be someone who went to the restaurant but got food poisoning. I will ask you a series of questions in [target language].
  
  
• We will do a role-playing game: You’ll be my next-door neighbor, [insert name]. I will be myself. You will speak to me in [target language].
  
  
• We’ll act as if you were my classmate, [name]. We will have interaction in [target language].
  
  
• We’re going to role-play as classmates. Your name is [name], and you’re originally from [target country]. We are going to speak to each other in [target language].
  
  
• We will pretend you are my elderly neighbor, and you just bought your first smartphone. You want me to help you figure out what to do with it. We will speak [target language] to each other.
  
  
• You are my classmate [name], and we will share a hotel room during a school trip. I want to figure out your morning routine since we will share a bathroom. I will ask you a series of questions in [target language], and I’d like you to respond as if you were human.

Other Resources:

Language & AI initiative from the Language Center at UC Berkeley. Some useful information about using chatGPT, and most materials are for using machine translation (MT)

The FLTMAG. An online magazine which focuses on the intersection of language pedagogy and technology and which features interviews and articles from professionals in the field.