Practising speaking with an AI Studying in the age of AI
- A tutor prompt gives a role, a level, a task and one kind of feedback.
- Ask the AI to name the mistake and let you try again.
- Shadow native recordings, not the AI.
- Trust the AI on grammar and words, not on how you sound.
- Use made-up personal details.
- tutor prompt
- instructions that set the AI's role, level, task and kind of feedback
- corrective feedback
- being told about a mistake, ideally so you can fix it yourself
- shadowing
- speaking along with a native recording, a moment behind it
- voice-capable AI assistant
- an AI chat app you can talk to out loud
Watch out: Trusting the AI's verdict on your pronunciation. An AI assistant can be very good at grammar and vocabulary, but its feedback on sounds is hit and miss: