Swiss educators rethink foreign language teaching because of AI

Silvia Steiner, President of the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education (EDK), has argued foreign language teaching needs to be rethought in light of artificial intelligence in an interview the NZZamSonntag. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Steiner has long been a proponent of early teaching of French in primary schools in German-speaking Switzerland. In the interview with the NZZamSonntag, she emphasised the importance of language skills for the cohesion of Switzerland. However, she also conceded that AI is raising new questions about the best approach to language learning. “It's no longer about stubbornly learning vocabulary, but rather about developing a feel for the language or assessing whether something that a computer program translates for me is correct or incorrect,” said Steiner. She sees the implementation of these approaches as the task of teacher training colleges. + How AI is affecting Switzerland's creative workforce She takes ...