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AI, EFL and Study Abroad: An exploration of AI as a preparatory companion

AI, EFL and Study Abroad: An exploration of AI as a preparatory companion. Abstract: The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) education has shown promising results in enhancing language acquisition in recent years (Jiang, 2022), and educator attitudes are gradually becoming more positive (Sumakul, Hamied & Sukyadi, 2022). Classroom adoption has also increased somewhat (Persson & Nouri, 2018), yet many educators may still find classroom applications limited. This workshop aims to allow educators an opportunity to explore a variety of AI use cases in an effort toward sharing knowledge and building a small repository of useful prompts that can be used in the classroom. Of particular focus will be using AI to help students prepare for their study abroad experience, as it is often difficult to expose students to sufficient quantities of native speaker interaction in their target country, as well as to find current idioms, slang, and turns of phrase that the students will be likely to experience immediately upon disembarking. Biography: Gavin Bingë is a half-South African, half-Scottish English language instructor working within the International Course at Kyoto Gaidai Nishi Senior High School. He holds a CELTA and an MSc in TESOL from the Moray House School of Education at the University of Edinburgh, where he specialized in Global Englishes, English as a Lingua Franca, and EFL assessment. Growing up in a country with 11 official languages, the areas of linguistic research that are dearest to his heart are Global Englishes (GE), Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL), and Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC). He hopes to bring Japanese students out into the world as much as possible, as he believes the world is improved when Japanese students take an active role within it.