🐱 ChatGPT: Using AI to learn English?

Have you come across "ChatGPT" around you or on the Internet a lot lately? 

What is it? 

What new implications can it have for us in the field of language education? 

How can we, as language teachers, use it to help our students in their learning process?

All these questions can be answered by reading this blog. This blog will try to open up different ways of using ChatGPT for you, using learning English as an example. 

If you would like to explore ChatGPT for yourself, please click here to go to its official website.

❓👉What is ChatGPT

ChatGPT is a recently introduced large-scale pre-trained language model that acts as a chatbot to complete question-and-answer conversations with users. ChatGPT is much more capable than previous chatbots: not only can it answer questions, but it can also challenge incorrect premises given by the user, admit its own mistakes and improve itself.

❓👉How to use ChatGPT in language learning

Below I will present examples from vocabulary learning, error correction function and writing creation. If you have other ideas, you are welcome to write it in the comments section and discuss it with us!

• 🧠 Vocabulary learning

Unlike ordinary electronic dictionaries, ChatGPT supports the explanation of the words you want to look up in English. This is helpful for learners at all stages to develop a better thinking and logic in English.

In addition, it can also give you the synonyms, antonyms, etc. of words, and you can also use these words to make sentences. As long as you give ChatGPT the relevant instructions.

• 🔍 Error correction function

When students have practised writing, teachers usually need to check their results for errors and urge them to correct them. But what if the teacher is not with the students? This is where ChatGPT comes in handy.

Users can enter sentences or paragraphs they have written into ChatGPT and issue instructions for them to check. This is shown in the image below.

As we can see, ChatGPT is a great way for learners to improve and learn by not only correcting the spelling of words and grammar usage in the text and making corrections, but also explaining the reasons for the corrections.

• ✏️ Writing creation

ChatGPT can create various texts according to the user's requirements, providing us with ideas and material for writing.

For example, we can use it to learn English idiom.

We can use it to write a model text and refer to the ideas and structure of the model text.

❌ 👉Limitations & Drawbacks
However, ChatGPT also has its limitations, and even drawbacks.

☝️Firstly, it does not yet support spoken conversation mode, so users must use manual input to communicate with it. On the one hand, this is cumbersome, and on the other hand, there is no way to use it to practise speaking.

✌️Secondly, its powerful features may make users too dependent on it. For example, some students may use it exclusively to complete homework. To counter this, teachers or parents should accompany students when they use ChatGPT so that they can better supervise them.


These are some of the flexible uses of ChatGPT. All in all, its introduction has certainly made a big difference to our lives. In the field of education, perhaps a major reform is on the horizon.

Finally, here is a video related to the content of this blog. If you have time, feel free to watch it! Maybe you can get more inspiration.