Métamorphoser et optimiser l’enseignement de l’intercompréhension avec l’intelligence artificielle / ChatGPT : un avenir prometteur pour le plurilinguisme
Transforming and optimizing the teaching of intercomprehension with artificial intelligence / ChatGPT: a promising future for plurilingualism

Summary/Abstract: In a world of misunderstandings and chosen or imposed individualisms, interest in plurilingualism or multilingualism - and through them, intercomprehension - has not disappeared. Traditionally, education for intercomprehension is a slow and fairly expensive process in terms of investment of effort and time. The emergence of remarkable Artificial Intelligence tools will irreversibly change the way students learn and teachers teach and learn themselves in the near future. Inevitably, the strength and speed with which a tool like ChatGPT will establish itself in the field of knowledge will influence the way intercomprehension is taught and learned. ChatGPT can represent a relevant source of information, a tool for the development of plurilingualism, and a competent assistant for scientific analyses. With proper guidance, it can create specific didactic tasks for philologists and non-philologists and offer them solutions. In this article, we will show how ChatGPT, rich in quality information, could both arouse the anxiety and exaltation of teacher-monitors and encourage the enthusiasm and self-sufficiency of learners. The demonstration will have two components, focusing on the use of ChatGPT in: a) the creation of flexible multilingual corpora, and b) the practice of two strategic elements (transparency and inferences) for understanding texts written in languages one does not master. The results of our analysis are encouraging to support the idea that ChatGPT is an extraordinary tool to support plurilingualism and intercomprehension. However, highlighting certain limitations or errors that occurred during tests allows us to assert that the use of Artificial Intelligence can only be beneficial for people who are critical thinkers, have a certain level of competence, or accept the advice of an intercomprehension specialist.

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