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School of Languages at XJTLU Conference 2024
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We find ourselves at a pivotal moment where the role of generative AI and other technological tools is reshaping the way we teach and learn languages. The question that lies before us is not whether these innovations will shape the future, but rather how we, as educators, will harness their potential to create meaningful and effective language instruction.
 
The title of our conference, No Fate: The Future is Not Set, underscores our belief that the future is not predetermined. We hope that our conference will serve both as a platform for collaboration and a catalyst for change as it is via the collective effort of educators, researchers, and innovators that the trajectory of language teaching and learning will be determined. By fostering collaboration, sharing insights, and pushing the boundaries of what is possible, we can shape the future of language education.
 

Sunday, June 2 • 11:30 - 12:00
“Rewrite for clarity”: the utility of AI assistants for real scientific writing

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Many of us attending this conference teach English to science students. As we adapt our teaching for the AI era, we might wonder: to what extent can AI aid the production of scientific writing? This talk will examine the performance of two popular AI tools (Chat-GPT and Grammarly) during the editing of real scientific journal articles. It will draw out their strengths and limitations, both comparative and collective, and comment on the implications of these for our teaching and our integration of AI assistants in the writing classroom.

I hold a PhD in chemistry, and since 2022 I have been proofreading and editing research paper manuscripts for several faculty members in SUSTech’s Department of Chemistry. This allows me to provide unusually detailed case studies and analysis of the successes and failures of currently available AI tools in this arena; this talk will be based entirely on real examples from papers I have edited and which have since been published in top chemistry journals. If time allows, examples from materials science and computer science will also be included. I hope this talk will be of interest to anyone who teaches writing to science students and is pondering how best to integrate AI into their practice.
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Adrian Rowland

Lecturer, SUSTech
Adrian Rowland works at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen, where he teaches EAP to postgraduate students and scientific writing to doctoral candidates.  He took his MChem and PhD (physical chemistry) degrees from the University of Durham.

Sunday June 2, 2024 11:30 - 12:00 CST
HS G03
  EAP/ESP, Presentation

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