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<p>Studying a language can be extremely rewarding and exciting for children and young
people. It can provide insight into other cultures and open the door to travel and
employment opportunities. Whilst Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be useful in enhancing
the experience of learning a language, and this should be explored further, it should
not be seen as a replacement.</p><p> </p><p>The department wants to capitalise on
the opportunities technology like AI presents for education, as well as addressing
its risks and challenges. Responses to the call for evidence on generative AI in education
highlighted the potential for this technology in generating language exercises and
conversational prompts, for example. Language learning was one of the use cases tested
as part of the department's Generative AI Hackathon project. The report of this project
is due to be published shortly. The most important thing for a high-quality education
is having a human expert teacher in the classroom. The emergence of this technology
does not change that.</p>
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