AI Diversifies Graded Reader Production in Latin America
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Artificial Intelligence, Graded Readers, Portuguese as a Foreign Language, Interagency Language Roundtable, Authentic ResourcesAbstract
The increased access of Artificial Intelligence (AI) will change the field of graded readers published for the teaching of languages of Latin America in a substantial way due to the automatization of processes that previously could takes months or years to complete on a novel. Leveraging AI, graded reader authors can produce adaptations for specified audiences quicker than before with unique apparatus and adaptation focuses. The AI revolution in terms of access makes the production of the language that graded readers produce also a more realistic language in a postmodern world. With the acceleration of production and the
variation of those productions, graded readers will be able to focus on the intricacies of subjectivity in the human experience which they have arguably lacked until now. AI will affect the graded reader field more so in a foundational way as well with the blurring of what can be considered authentic texts. The argument against graded readers and their authenticity will be weakened substantially in a world full of AI generated news articles and literature. This paper aims to demonstrate that the increased access of AI will lead to the production of more effective and specific graded readers and it also aims to demonstrate how AI will weaken one of the more fundamental arguments against graded readers due to its challenge to the definition of authentic texts.
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