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Chinese language departments redraw courses in response to AI

Changing student expectations and labour market challenges also drive shift towards interdisciplinary programmes

19 July

Sign at South Australia’s southernmost point, Port Macdonnell, showing the distances to various cities and the South Pole

Macquarie finalises plan to halve language programmes

Course cuts will ‘revitalise’ language offerings, make students more employable and ‘address global challenges’, university claims

By John Ross

7 June

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25 April 2024 digital edition

Falling silent: Will AI hasten the demise of modern language courses?

By THE digital

25 April

Illustration from Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes. Sancho Panza finds Don Quixote after he unsuccessfully attacks a windmill (edited to show modern wind turbines).

Is AI the final nail in the coffin for modern languages?

Anglophone scepticism about the value of language study had been rising for many years before anyone had heard of Duolingo or ChatGPT. But while some academics believe technology will kill off universities’ remaining language departments, others dare to hope it will be their saviour. Patrick Jack reports

By Patrick Jack

25 April

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