Limited English proficiency can be defined as the difficulty in comprehension and production in English. The efficiency of the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) Model indicates eight ...

Teaching fewer words to large language models might help them sound more human. By Oliver Whang When it comes to artificial intelligence chatbots, bigger is typically better. Large language models ...

Large language models are AI systems trained on huge datasets to understand inputs provided in natural, human language and output a variety of responses—everything from written content to unique ...

During the summer, I will be sharing thematic posts bringing together responses on similar topics from the past nine years. You can see all those collections from the first eight years here. Five ...

In a new paper, researchers from Tencent AI Lab Seattle and the University of Maryland, College Park, present a reinforcement learning technique that enables large language models (LLMs) to utilize ...

Just 15 years ago, bilingual education was banned in three states—Arizona, California, and Massachusetts—which altogether educated 40 percent of the nation’s English-language learners. Now, amid the ...

We got a first look at the much-anticipated big new language model from OpenAI. But this time how it works is even more deeply under wraps. OpenAI has finally unveiled GPT-4, a next-generation large ...

In high-stakes situations like health care—or weeknight Jeopardy!—it can be safer to say "I don't know" than to answer incorrectly. Doctors, game show contestants, and standardized test-takers ...

If teachers themselves lack the pedagogical background for language teaching, speak or write bad English, they cannot become role models for these students. Adding to that, some rural schools often ...

Vietnam will need 22,000 more English teachers by 2030 under an ambitious drive to make English a second language in schools, the Ministry of Education and Training announced. The draft proposal, ...