The American Association of Teachers of Arabic announces the following Workshop/Webinar:

Using AI-based Platforms for Arabic Language Teaching and Learning

This webinar introduces some activities that can help students acquire Arabic using Large Language Models (LLMs) exemplified by ChatGPT. These activities include vocabulary and sentence building, grammar explanations and acquisition, speech and conversation practice, writing correction and feedback, intercultural competence, pronunciation training, etc. The webinar also introduces teachers to effective strategies to prompt engineering, which is an important practice of designing inputs to guide ChatGPT or other LLMs to produce the optimal outputs that meet students' proficiency levels. The webinar will conclude with the challenges that face the Fuṣḥa and other Arabic varieties in the era of LLMs.

REGISTRATION

• Complimentary for AATA Members. 
• Non-members, click here to join/renew, then register.
  

DATE & TIME

• Saturday, April 13
  3-4:30pm Eastern
  (Duration: 1.5 hours)

LOCATION

• Virtual
  

PRESENTER

Dr. Elsayed Issa is an assistant professor of computational linguistics and Arabic at the School of Languages and Cultures at Purdue University. His research program lies at the intersection of natural language processing, education technology, conversational AI, and speech technology.

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