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ChatGPT is a Weird Linguist: What Should Language Teachers Know?
In this specialized talk for language professionals, LLMs are described as 'superpolyglots' but 'weird linguists.' While models like GPT-4 can translate between languages with high fluency, their acquisition method (reading the entire internet) is fundamentally different from human acquisition (embodied social interaction).
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The Paradox: LLMs produce perfect C2 level proficiency but fail basic A1 level grammar constraintsWhy AI makes 'weird' errors that humans wouldn't makeUsing AI for generating input (e.g., 'Write a story about a cat using the past tense')Why to be wary of using AI for correction confident but often incorrect grammatical explanationsPractical applications for language teachers