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When I was a freshman at SFC, I took a course on "Modern Thought" taught by Professor Toshiaki Iseki, who was the Dean of the Faculty of Policy Management at the time. I still haven't forgotten the talk he gave in the first session titled "The Season for New Glasses." To put it in more complex terms, he was talking about paradigm theory, but Professor Iseki explained it in a way that was easy for us—who were not much different from high school students—to understand.

In this book, I and my fellow faculty members discuss the possibility that current generative AI presents a next "grand narrative" significant enough to require consideration within the scope of such paradigm theory. For better or worse, the penetration of generative AI into real-world society has not progressed as much as expected. The same is true for the world of education, which is often criticized for being slow to change; some teachers are still loudly voicing their opposition and are desperate to provide education that intentionally avoids using AI.

However, that is not the point. Educators must recognize the possibility that the paradigm has already shifted, and that the rules of the game—or the game itself—may have been replaced. Otherwise, as people in a position to lead young people with futures ahead of them, we are being far too irresponsible.

I am a researcher specializing in applied linguistics and philosophy of language (pragmatism), and I stand at the podium as a practitioner of foreign language education at a university. While ChatGPT has recently begun to compose music and draw pictures, it is originally an AI based on large language models. In other words, text data—vast amounts of written language—is its true origin, and the sweet spot of generative AI is, after all, language. Therefore, language is the field where generative AI excels most, and it is a natural idea to utilize its performance in language education, including foreign languages.

This book discusses in detail what the impact of generative AI will bring, specifically to foreign language education. While it is certain to have a revolutionary or even devastating impact, this book examines those details professionally. Generative AI possesses the potential impact to truly shift the paradigm. I do not intend to simply deny or blindly criticize conventional English education. I simply want to emphasize that the paradigm has become different.

Tsukasa Yamanaka (Editor/Author)

Asahi Press

280 pages, 2,420 yen (tax included)

*Affiliations and titles are those at the time of publication.