Lecturer IV
Learning Languages with AI
What You'll Learn
- Gain insights into what you can do with generative AI to learn an additional language
- Identify your specific language learning communication goals and develop plans to meet those goals using generative AI
- Learn how to responsibly use generative AI to enhance your language learning
- Evaluate generative AI-powered tools for your own language learning
5 Modules
15 Hours
3 hrs per module (approx.)
Rating
About Learning Languages with AI
Language learning can be exciting—but without active practice, our skills can begin to plateau. Build your confidence and fluency by leveraging AI to support your learning with Learning Languages with AI.
This course helps you take what you’ve learned in the classroom, on apps like Duolingo, or while traveling, and use AI to build custom practice routines tailored to your goals. Which AI tool you choose doesn’t matter; you will learn how to use platforms like ChatGPT or Gemini to get the exact practice you need.
Based on your current language level, you’ll identify areas where you feel confident, and features of the language you could use more practice in. From there, course instructor Pamela Bogart leads you to practical AI approaches that help you meet your goals, from improving your spoken communication to advancing your writing capabilities.
Expertise with generative AI tools is not required, just familiarity with the fundamentals of the language you want to learn. Get ready to embark on a more engaging, tailored language-learning journey towards fluency using AI.
Skills You'll Gain
- Communication Strategies
- Editing
- Goal Setting
What You'll Earn
- Certificate of Completion
- Certificates of completion acknowledge knowledge acquired upon completion of a non-credit course or program.
Welcome Message
Welcome to Learning Languages with AI, a course designed to help learners use generative AI to enhance language learning. Learners explore goal setting, practice strategies, bias awareness, and personalized planning while experimenting with AI tools to support meaningful and enjoyable language learning.
This abbreviated syllabus description was created with the help of AI tools and reviewed by staff. The full syllabus is available to those who enroll in the course.
Course Schedule
Module 1: Getting Started
- Video: Meet your instructor
- Reading: Instructor Profile
- Reading: Syllabus
- Reading: Help us learn more about you!
- Video: What’s possible now with AI
- Reading: What you can do with AI in this course
- Reading: Module 1 overview
- Reading: Introduction to generative AI tools
- Reading: AI task instructions: Meet a generative AI tool
- Reading: AI task example A: Meeting a family friend
- Reading: AI task example B: Running into an old friend
- Reading: Introduction to the Gamut Workbook and Gallery
- App Item: Reflect: Meet a generative AI tool
- Video: Delegating communication tasks to an AI tools vs. language learning with an AI tool
- Video: A framework for telling your AI what you can do in your target language
- Reading: A useful framework to describe language: Introduction to the CEFR
- Reading: Using AI to figure out your current CEFR level
- Video: Introduction to AI task: Your can-do communication goals
- Reading: AI task instructions: Identify precise can-do communication goals you want to work on in this course
- Reading: AI task example A: CEFR A2 travel-related goals
- Reading: AI task example B: CEFR B2 employment-related goals
- App Item: Reflection: Identify precise goals
- Discussion Prompt: Share your takeaways
- Graded: Module 1 assessment
Module 2: AI and IRL exposure, study, and practice
- Reading: Module 2 overview
- Video: Breaking down one of your language learning goals: Exposure, study, practice, and reflection
- Reading: The CRESP model
- Video: Since language learning is social, where does AI come in?
- Video: Introduction to AI task: Get some exposure
- Reading: AI task instructions: Get some exposure
- Reading: AI task example A: Exposure to speaking for job interviews
- Reading: AI task example B: Exposure to reading for researching employers
- Reading: AI task example C: Learning how to write names of tourist attractions in Urdu
- App Item: Reflection: Get some exposure
- Video: Introduction to AI Task: Use your reflection to plan and do some AI-aided vocabulary studying
- Reading: AI task instructions: Use your reflection to guide some AI-aided vocabulary study
- Reading: AI task example A: Useful vocabulary for “tell us about yourself” in job interviews
- Reading: AI Task example B: Useful vocabulary for understanding reading about employers
- Reading: AI task example C: Writing your country of origin in Urdu
- App Item: Reflection: AI-aided vocabulary study
- Video: Introduction to AI task: Do some practice
- Reading: AI task instructions: Do some practice
- Reading: AI Task example A: Example of answering “tell me about yourself” and impromptu follow-up questions
- Reading: AI task example B: Read real news articles in English to prepare for interviews
- Reading: AI task example C: Writing a note in Urdu
- App Item: Reflection: Do some practice
- Discussion Prompt: Share your takeaways
- Graded: Module 2 assessment
Module 3: Wisely using your AI tools
- Reading: Module 3 overview
- Video: The importance of supplying context
- Reading: Examples of low- and higher-context prompts and results
- Video: Video interview: How one data scientist uses generative AI in her academic writing process
- Reading: AI task instructions: The power of context
- Reading: AI task example A: Job interview question generation
- Reading: AI task example B: Cover letter writing
- App Item: Reflection: The power of context
- Video: Choosing among generative AI-equipped language learning apps
- Reading: Framework for evaluating apps for your own learning objectives
- Reading: AI task instructions: Evaluate an AI-powered language learning app
- Reading: AI task example A: Learning menu items with an app
- Reading: AI task example B: Social conversation with a language learning app
- App Item: Reflection: Evaluate a language learning app
- Video: Introduction to using generative AI for language self-assessment
- Reading: Ways to use generative AI for language self-assessment
- Reading: AI task instructions: Language self-assessment with AI
- Reading: AI task example A: Assess an interview answer
- Reading: AI task example B: Assess cover letter draft
- App Item: Reflection: Language self-assessment
- Discussion Prompt: Share your takeaways
- Graded: Module 3 assessment
Module 4: Identifying the limits of AI tools
- Reading: Module 4 overview
- Video: Nurturing your own voice in an additional language
- Reading: AI limitations in explaining language errors
- Reading: Protecting your privacy
- Reading: Sources of bias in generative AI
- Reading: Language bias: Poor performance in most languages
- Reading: Types of bias in generative AI output
- Video: Introduction to AI task: Identifying and diminishing bias
- Reading: AI task instructions: Identifying and diminishing bias
- Reading: AI task example A: Identifying and diminishing bias
- Reading: AI task example B: Identifying and diminishing bias
- App Item: Reflection: Identifying and diminishing bias
- Video: Part 1: Definitions of plagiarism
- Video: Part 2: Layers of culture and plagiarism
- Video: Part 3: Example plagiarism policies
- Reading: Plagiarism resources
- Reading: AI task instructions: Exploring your voice and plagiarism
- Reading: AI task example A: A high school student
- Reading: AI task example B: An administrative assistant writing email correspondence in her second language
- App Item: Reflection: Exploring your voice and plagiarism
- Discussion Prompt: Share your takeaways
- Graded: Module 4 assessment
Module 5: Making your personal language learning plan
- Reading: Module 5 overview
- Video: The advantages of making a plan
- Video: Including IRL exposure, study, and practice in your plan
- Reading: Templates for your learning plan
- Reading: AI task instructions: Using AI to craft your plan
- Reading: AI task example A: Using AI to craft your plan
- Reading: AI task example B: Using AI to craft your plan
- App Item: Reflection: Using AI to craft your plan
- Video: Using generative AI to brainstorm language learning activities
- Reading: AI task instructions: Improving your plan over time
- Reading: AI task example A: Improving your plan over time
- Reading: AI task example B: Improving your plan over time
- App Item: Reflection: Improving your plan
- Discussion Prompt: Share your takeaways
- Video: Farewell
- Reading: Acknowledgments
- Reading: Post-course survey
- Graded: Module 5 assessment
Grading Policy
Learners must earn an overall grade of 80% to pass. The assessment for each module is worth 20% of your final grade.
Course content developed by U-M faculty and managed by the university. Faculty titles and affiliations are updated periodically.
Beginner Level
Learners should be somewhat familiar with the language(s) they want to learn in this course. No prior use of generative AI tools is required.
Course Video
What Learners Are Saying
Generative AI can enable us to practice conversation anytime, 24/7, read difficult documents, create personalized study and practice materials, and plan our learning.
Pamela Bogart Lecturer, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
