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Narrow AI-Powered Visualization Facilitation Tools in Foreign Language Learning: A Visual Approach Promoting Equal Opportunities in Foreign Language Grammar Teaching

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Facilitating Visual Socialities

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This chapter aims to examine the potentials of narrow AI-powered visualizer tools to enhance multi-channel grammar input and promote equal opportunities for language learners, so that they acquire sustainable curricular knowledge within the context of a diverse foreign language classroom. The chapter begins by addressing technological determinism in the field of technology-enhanced learning and how tech myths may be debunked by focussing on the methodological and pedagogical advantages digital tools might have for the language learning process. I address the possibilities of using AI-powered explainer tools as visual facilitators towards equal opportunities concerning the learner’s reception of curricular knowledge artefacts (grammar performance). The chapter provides recommendations about how AI-powered visualizer tools can be methodologically employed in order to create equal opportunities within a multi-faceted and supportive learning environment, refuting instructivist, tech-determined paradigms surrounding digital technologies.

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    For a more detailed discussion on visual inclusion with digital tools, see Häikiö (2018).

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    Translated from German.

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    https://videomaker.simpleshow.com/, last access 26.09.2022

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    A detailed project description with an extensive empirical discussion will be published in 2023 in a special issue of the Zeitschrift für Fremdsprachenforschung.

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    Only fragments will be presented here. For a more detailed discussion of the findings, see Strasser (2023 forthcoming).

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    Based on a repeated Analysis of Variance methodology.

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    For more potentials and limitations of this study, see Strasser (2023 forthcoming).

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Strasser, T. (2023). Narrow AI-Powered Visualization Facilitation Tools in Foreign Language Learning: A Visual Approach Promoting Equal Opportunities in Foreign Language Grammar Teaching. In: Burkholder, C., Schwab-Cartas, J., Aladejebi, F. (eds) Facilitating Visual Socialities. Social Visualities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25259-4_5

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