Abstract:

In this survey, the article shows how the effect of artificial intelligence (AI) is changing and influencing many industries day by day, not forgetting the educational field. The database grows and creates a reflection through the artificial neural network. To choose an effective approach to teach is not a just a question about knowledge, very often it is a question about adaptation. The evolution of technology makes impossible events more possible through different aspects. E-Learning and Distance learning have a similar method of teaching, so that why FLDT (Foreign Language Distance Teaching) can use this experience to develop a method for teaching, which introduce in its method new techniques. Pedagogues and Methodists are principal specialists in this area. They need other specialists to make this development more effective and adaptive. Case analysis from them give a percentage of achieved success from the platforms (Moodle, MS Teams). The representation of the database from platforms does not always have an open access for all people. So, it is defined by the own specialization of the learner. There is always an advantage and a disadvantage about distance education, so pedagogues at RUDN university think, that it is very helpful to create a Virtual Teacher Assistant (VTA) to allow learners to obtain material contents (7 days/7days and 24 hours/24hours). The philosophy of neural network gives teachers the possibility to create a chatbot, which will assist teachers in a near future. Creating programs using content via a neural network is a modern approach to education, which is why the use of computers, projectors and webcams in rooms at RUDN University has become a fundamental process. In this University MS Teams is the principal communication platform, which offering a shareware application for creating a chatbot named “Power Virtual Agents”. For third course’s students, a Methodist created a chatbot to help him share the material content of the discipline: abstraction and annotation of texts in a second foreign language. The French teacher and the Methodist with the help of a programmer develop this program to communicate with students in French. The VTA is not only sharing content, but it can also write freely to answer questions. The result of this study shows the possibility to use human-machine relation to develop a technique for FLT using modern approaches.

Keywords:

Virtual Teacher Assistant (chatbot), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Foreign Language Teaching (FLT), Distance Education (E-Learning)