Dual Language Teaching in the Age of AI: Bilingual Educators' Perspectives

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Saturday 9:50 am Four Seasons Ballroom 1
  In Roundtable Session: Innovations in Bi-/Multilingual Teacher Education: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Multimodality, and Beyond (Table 1)

Abstract

Using a qualitative case study design we investigated the experiences of two dual language teachers’ use of ChatGPT. We used an integrated professional knowledge for teaching theoretical framework and collected prompt logs (text entered into ChatGPT), a focus group interview, lesson documents and teacher reflections from two elementary dual language teachers. Data was analyzed via open and attribute coding (Saldaña, 2021) and three themes emerged. 1) Teachers adopted an evaluative response to AI-generated content, 2) teachers compared human and artificial intelligence, 3) teachers identified affordances and constraints while using AI in their pedagogy. This study has strong implications to investigate the use of AI in bi-multilingual education for ethical use and further explore affordances and constraints in bilingual settings.

Authors

• Magdalena Pando, Southern Methodist University

• Maricela Leon, The University of Texas System

• Karla Del Rosal, Southern Methodist University

• Caitie Dougherty, Southern Methodist University