Research on AI-Empowered Reform of College Foreign Language Teaching Based on the POA Theory

Abstract

For years, China's college foreign language teaching has suffered from the pain point of being time-consuming and inefficient; lots of language input but poor output ability among students. The Production-Oriented Approach (POA) can effectively solve the pain point of separation between learning and use in foreign language teaching. Large-class teaching has many problems like lacking individualized guidance and difficult to implement process-oriented teaching. With the popularization of AI technology, we find a new way to break through the bottleneck. Most academic studies do separate POA teaching practice or AI-based foreign language teaching applications now, which lacks systematic research about their integration. Based on this, we combine the theoretical connotation of POA with the advantage of AI teaching applications, build up a full-process AI-empowered college foreign language teaching model, test its effectiveness via teaching experiment, providing theoretical reference and practical implication for digital reform of college foreign language teaching.