人工智能时代的语言测评:机遇与挑战

Language Assessment in the Era of Artificial Intelligence:Opportunities and Challenges

本文探讨了人工智能在语言测评领域的应用及其带来的机遇与挑战。语言测评经历了从人工到机器辅助再到人工智能参与的演变,反映了社会需求的升级和技术进步。借助人工智能,语言测评展现出高效率、可扩展性、客观性和一致性、个性化与适应性等优势,同时提供了持续测评和即时反馈的机会。这些优势为终结性评价的改进、形成性评价的强化、真实评价的推进、动态评价的实施以及测评公平性的提升带来了机遇。然而,借助人工智能的语言测评也面临语言理解和处理能力不足、生成文本不精确、测评结果不一致、数据偏见、专业发展需求增加、隐私和安全问题等挑战。未来,研究者需进一步探索人工智能在语言测评中的应用研究,以确保测评的准确性和公正性。

This paper discusses the application of artificial intelligence(AI)in the field of language assessment and the opportunities and challenges it brings.Language assessment has evolved from being purely human-driven to being machine-assisted and now involving AI,reflecting increasing societal demands and technological advancements.By leveraging AI,language assessment has demonstrated advantages such as higher efficiency,scalability,objectivity,and consistency,as well as personalization and adaptability.It also provides opportunities for continuous assessment and immediate feedback.These advantages create possibilities for improving summative assessment,strengthening formative assessment,advancing authentic assessment,implementing dynamic assessment,and enhancing the fairness of assessment.However,language assessment that relies on AI also faces challenges,including limitations in language understanding and processing capabilities,inaccuracies in generated text,inconsistencies in assessment results,data biases,increased professional development needs,and concerns over privacy and security.Going forward,researchers need to further explore the application of AI in language assessment to ensure the accuracy and fairness of assessment.This will involve addressing the identified challenges and leveraging the opportunities presented by AI to enhance the overall quality and effectiveness of language assessment.