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Students using A.I. over humans to learn English (23rd December 2024)
More and more students in Japan are using artificial intelligence (AI) to learn English and other languages. The language learning app Duolingo conducted a survey on how students study languages. More than 4,700 Japanese students answered questions about their language-learning habits. The survey found that the number of people using ChatGPT and other AI tools increased by more than 80 per cent in 2024. AI was particularly popular with younger people. The researchers said more young people used AI than took face-to-face lessons. However, some people in their 20s were not totally happy with AI lessons. They said AI lacked natural responses and was a little boring.
Duolingo said: "We're in the midst of an AI revolution.…Technology has long had an impact on language learning." It found that apps were the most popular method in Japan to learn languages. English was the most studied language, followed by Korean. People are studying Korean "to understand the language as spoken by…favourite artists and celebrities." Duolingo said around 58 per cent of people who took the survey used language-learning apps. This was followed by video streaming platforms like YouTube and Netflix (37%), textbooks (36%) and online lessons (16%). The number of people going to a language school is decreasing. Just 13.8 per cent of people went to classes with a teacher.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/19/japan/chatgpt-english-lessons/
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241218/p2a/00m/0li/017000c
https://blog.duolingo.com/2024-duolingo-language-report/
The claim to reason or rationality is the ultimate validation of the affirmation and assertion of the human condition. Aristotle’s definition of man as "a rational animal" was not spoken of the African and the Amerindian. Little did he realise that his definition of "man" laid down the foundation for the struggle for reason between colonialists and colonized peoples.
Aristotle’s definition of man was deeply inscribed in the social ethos of those communities and societies which undertook the so-called voyages of discovery apparently driven by innocent curiosity. It seems then that the entire process of decolonisation has upheld and not jettisoned the questionable belief that "man is a rational animal" was not spoken of the African and of the Amerindian.
The term African philosophy renders the idea that history repeats itself easy to believe. The term tends to revive innate skepticism on the one hand and to stimulate ingrained condescension on the other. The skeptic, unswervingly committed to the will to remain ignorant, is simply dismissive of any possibility let alone the probability of African philosophy. Impelled by the will to dominate, the condescendor is often ready to entertain the probability of African philosophy provided the judgement pertaining to the experience, knowledge and truth about African philosophy is recognised as the sole and exclusive right of the condescendor. The self-appointed heirs to the right to reason have thus established themselves as the producers of all knowledge and the only holders of the truth.
Mogobe B. Ramose. African philosophy through Ubuntu.
Harare, Zimbabwe: Mond Books Publishers, 2005, pp. 5-6 (adapted).
Considering the preceding text, judge the following item.
At the end of the second paragraph, if the fragment "questionable belief" were replaced with questionable beliefs, the change would require "was" to be replaced with were for the sentence to remain grammatically correct.
The base verbs below are all regular verbs:
I. to play
II. to study
III. to stop
IV. to travel
Choose the alternative in which all the verbs are correctly written in the Simple Past tense, respectively.
In the Simple Past tense, the ending -ed can be pronounced as /t/, /d/, or /ɪd/.
Choose the alternative in which all the verbs have their -ed ending pronounced as /t/.
Choose the alternative that correctly completes the sentence. The correct answer must express the idea of formal prohibition.
Employees ______ enter the restricted area without proper authorization.
Select the alternative that correctly completes the sentence.
She ______ to Paris three times since 2020.
The grammatically accurate passive construction expressing epistemic possibility is:
The verbal phrase that most accurately foregrounds continuity to the present moment is:
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As the world keeps warming and electricity bills take center stage in national politics, the data center boom will drive up USA carbon emissions and electricity costs. But a few simple policies could help bring both emissions and prices back down. That‟s the message of a new analysis from the Union of Concerned Scientists released Wednesday, which models a variety of scenarios for how to fuel the coming artificial intelligence boom. The USA is poised to see a 60 to 80 percent increase in electricity demand through 2050, with data centers alone making up more than half of the increase by the end of this decade, the analysis finds. If policies stay the same as they currently are—with attacks on renewable energy being embedded into regulatory regimes and few significant national policies restricting carbon emissions from power plants—we could see between a 19 and 29 percent increase in CO emissions from USA power plants tied just to the energy needs of data centers over the next 10 years. There are answers, though: Bringing back tax credits for wind and solar energy, even if data centers eat up a significant chunk of new demand for electricity, would cut CO emissions by more than 30 percent over the next decade. They could also make wholesale electricity costs go down by about 4 percent by 2050, after a slight rise over the next decade. Power plants are the second-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the USA, making up about a quarter of the country‟s overall emissions. Last year, emissions from the USA power sector rose slightly, marking the first increase since 2023; commercial buildings like data centers, a separate analysis released last week from the Rhodium Group found, were the main drivers of that demand.
Internet:http://www.wired.com/
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As the world keeps warming and electricity bills take center stage in national politics, the data center boom will drive up USA carbon emissions and electricity costs. But a few simple policies could help bring both emissions and prices back down. That‟s the message of a new analysis from the Union of Concerned Scientists released Wednesday, which models a variety of scenarios for how to fuel the coming artificial intelligence boom. The USA is poised to see a 60 to 80 percent increase in electricity demand through 2050, with data centers alone making up more than half of the increase by the end of this decade, the analysis finds. If policies stay the same as they currently are—with attacks on renewable energy being embedded into regulatory regimes and few significant national policies restricting carbon emissions from power plants—we could see between a 19 and 29 percent increase in CO emissions from USA power plants tied just to the energy needs of data centers over the next 10 years. There are answers, though: Bringing back tax credits for wind and solar energy, even if data centers eat up a significant chunk of new demand for electricity, would cut CO emissions by more than 30 percent over the next decade. They could also make wholesale electricity costs go down by about 4 percent by 2050, after a slight rise over the next decade. Power plants are the second-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the USA, making up about a quarter of the country‟s overall emissions. Last year, emissions from the USA power sector rose slightly, marking the first increase since 2023; commercial buildings like data centers, a separate analysis released last week from the Rhodium Group found, were the main drivers of that demand.
Internet:http://www.wired.com/
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It was the middle of the afternoon, and my son, as he often does, wanted to watch Paw Patrol. “Pups Save a Humsquatch‟?” he pleaded, rattling off episode titles. “No, „Pups Save the Bears.‟ No, „Pups and the Stinky Bubble Trouble‟!” I hesitated, the first sign of defeat. We‟d settled into a virtuous no-TV-on-schoolnights routine, but it wasn‟t a school night, and my husband and I had already done everything there was to do with a 6-year-old on a below-freezing Chicago Saturday — made pancakes, drawn pictures, counted and written numbers up to 100, read stories, played hide-and-seek (which became tickle-and-run), practiced piano, gone to Sky Zone, eaten chicken and rice, played computer games at the library, transformed an errant cardboard box into a tube for our dog, pulled out his new kids‟ cookbook and cooked up chocolate pudding on the stove. What more was there? TV. There was TV! Deep down, parents know that plopping your young child in front of the TV feels bad. Of course, there are even more malevolent screens lurking. In an age of YouTube Kids and artificial intelligence chatbots and when a 2025 Pew survey showed that among parents of children 12 and under, more than half reported daily YouTube consumption, worrying about the cartoons my kindergartner streams may sound quaint. But my son is, for now, too young for the perils of the Internet and adequately distracted by streaming shows, which doesn‟t make me feel any better about leaning on them to keep him occupied.
Internet:
Text 10A2-II
It was the middle of the afternoon, and my son, as he often does, wanted to watch Paw Patrol. “Pups Save a Humsquatch‟?” he pleaded, rattling off episode titles. “No, „Pups Save the Bears.‟ No, „Pups and the Stinky Bubble Trouble‟!” I hesitated, the first sign of defeat. We‟d settled into a virtuous no-TV-on-schoolnights routine, but it wasn‟t a school night, and my husband and I had already done everything there was to do with a 6-year-old on a below-freezing Chicago Saturday — made pancakes, drawn pictures, counted and written numbers up to 100, read stories, played hide-and-seek (which became tickle-and-run), practiced piano, gone to Sky Zone, eaten chicken and rice, played computer games at the library, transformed an errant cardboard box into a tube for our dog, pulled out his new kids‟ cookbook and cooked up chocolate pudding on the stove. What more was there? TV. There was TV! Deep down, parents know that plopping your young child in front of the TV feels bad. Of course, there are even more malevolent screens lurking. In an age of YouTube Kids and artificial intelligence chatbots and when a 2025 Pew survey showed that among parents of children 12 and under, more than half reported daily YouTube consumption, worrying about the cartoons my kindergartner streams may sound quaint. But my son is, for now, too young for the perils of the Internet and adequately distracted by streaming shows, which doesn‟t make me feel any better about leaning on them to keep him occupied.
Internet:
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Everyone ages, but, sometimes, people outlive all predictions. Previous research has uncovered an unlikely factor related to longevity: intelligence. However, intelligence isn‟t a simple characteristic. There are many traits that contribute to it that can be tested — from memory to mathematical logic. In a 2024 clinical psychological science study, Paolo Ghisletta, of the University of Geneva, linked longevity specifically to one of those traits: verbal fluency, the measure of one‟s vocabulary and their ability to use it. Ghisletta‟s research used samples from the Berlin Aging Study, which started collecting data shortly before the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. It tracked 516 people aged 70 to 105 from enrollment to their death, over as long as 18 years in some cases. The study measured factors like dental health, stress levels, and economic well-being, as well as cognition. This makes it a “rich and rare data set,” said Ghisletta in an interview.
Internet: http://www.sciencedaily.com/
“The winds of change may indeed be beneficial for some and a threat to others.”
Analyze the statements.
I) The modal verb “may” expresses possibility rather than certainty.
II) The adverb “indeed” reinforces the speaker’s full commitment to the truth of the statement.
III) The modal construction reflects cautious and evaluative language typical of academic argumentation.
Choose the correct alternative.
“This line of research presents serious questions for Applied Linguistics (AL) and English Language Teaching (ELT) that will, if implemented, entail major changes in that endeavor.”
The verb forms used in the segment “will, if implemented, entail” indicate that:
“The appearance of Lingua Franca English has contributed to rethinking the role of language assessment and testing […]”
Mark the statements as True (T) or False (F).
(__) The verb form “has contributed” is in the Present Perfect and emphasizes the impact of a past development on current discussions.
(__) The use of the Present Perfect suggests that the contribution is still relevant at the present time.
(__) Replacing “has contributed” with “contributed” would preserve exactly the same meaning in this context.
(__) The verb tense choice is consistent with academic discourse that focuses on ongoing effects rather than finished events.
Choose the correct alternative.
“This line of research presented serious questions for Applied Linguistics (AL) and English Language Teaching (ELT) that, if implemented, would entail major changes in that endeavor.”
The use of verb tenses in “presented” and “would entail” indicates that:
“The realization that there are today more nonnative speakers than native speakers of English in the world […] has led to the rethinking of present-day practices in teaching, teacher preparation, and the writing of textbooks.”
The verb form “has led” is used in this context because it:
“She will meet him later (Part 1), since she said she enjoyed the date yesterday (Part 2).”
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