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Artificial Unintelligence: Computer Uses in Language Learning
Author(s) -
HIGGINS JOHN
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
tesol quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.737
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1545-7249
pISSN - 0039-8322
DOI - 10.2307/3586364
Subject(s) - nothing , subject matter , computer science , linguistics , language acquisition , mathematics education , subject (documents) , artificial intelligence , psychology , cognitive science , epistemology , pedagogy , philosophy , world wide web , curriculum
Many approaches to language teaching assume a teacher is both proficient in the subject matter and intelligent about deciding how to present it, while also assuming a learner with no proficiency and no intelligence. Under such a model, nothing is learned unless it is explicitly taught; learners have to be given, since they cannot take. Paradoxically, if one adopts an approach which respects the learner's intelligence, it may turn out that the learner wants and needs an unintelligent partner, a partner who will behave in a totally predictable and rule‐governed way.