ChatGPT in creating exams on German as a foreign language
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https://doi.org/10.12795/mAGAzin.2024.i32.03Keywords:
ChatGPT, Spanish Official Language School, coherence, professors, studentsAbstract
ChatGPT pretends to be a person. Therefore, the aim of this article is to prove if the chatbot can create quality exams on German as a foreign language. The main purpose of the investigation is to prove if ChatGPT is able to substitute the professors’ task of creating exams and, consequently, substitute them in this specific duty. The methodology conducted has consisted of two similar surveys sent to German professors and university students, one to each, in order to observe if they are capable of distinguishing between texts written by humans, specifically exams from the Spanish Official School of Languages, or similar texts written by ChatGPT. Aside from the personal views of the participants, ChatGPT both makes mistakes and is occasionally incoherent, which cannot be permitted in the assessment of foreign language knowledge, mainly if humans can create these same exams in a faster and more efficient manner.
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