Teaching Design of AI-Enabling Junior High School English Instruction under the POA Model

Abstract

With the advancement of digital transformation of education, artificial intelligence provides technical support for the innovation of foreign language education model. However, there is still a problem of “separation of learning and application” in junior high school English teaching. In order to solve this problem, the Production-Oriented Approach came into being. This teaching method provides an effective pathway to realize the integration of learning and application. However, for front-line teachers, the application of POA in front-line teaching faces many difficulties, such as being time-consuming and laborious, and puts forward higher requirements for teachers’ personal teaching design ability and knowledge reserve. Based on this, this paper takes Unit 3 “A Helping Hand” from the FLTRP eighth-grade textbook as an example, constructs the POA teaching design framework under AI empowerment, embeds the generative artificial intelligence into the three key phases “motivating, enabling, and assessing” and explores the classroom implementation path under the support of human-machine collaboration. The research shows that AI has significant advantages in the creation of communicative situations, the support of language resources and the optimization of evaluation feedback, which enhances teachers’ design efficiency and improves students’ language application skills. This paper also provides an operational design paradigm for AI-supported POA teaching practice.