{"id":137,"date":"2026-01-27T19:09:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T19:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanoostendorp.nl\/wordpress\/?p=137"},"modified":"2026-05-08T11:25:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:25:24","slug":"new-article-looking-at-language-with-chatbots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanoostendorp.nl\/wordpress\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/new-article-looking-at-language-with-chatbots\/","title":{"rendered":"New article: Looking at Language with Chatbots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Dutch scholarly journal TNTL just published my article &#8216;Looking at Language with Chatbots&#8217;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aup-online.com\/content\/journals\/10.5117\/TNTL2025.4.003.OOST#CIT0019\">Here<\/a> is the link; the abstract is here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has profound implications for both research and education, also within linguistics. This article explores how chatbots can serve as innovative tools for the didactics of reflection about language and language use. Using concrete examples from interactions with LLMs, it demonstrates how these technologies make the four perspectives on language formulated by the Dutch&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aup-online.com\/content\/journals\/10.5117\/TNTL2025.4.003.OOST#CIT0019\"><em>Meesterschapsteam Nederlands<\/em>&nbsp;(2016<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aup-online.com\/content\/journals\/10.5117\/TNTL2025.4.003.OOST#CIT0020\">2018<\/a>) \u2013 language as a system, as an individual phenomenon, as a social phenomenon, and as a historical phenomenon \u2013 accessible in new and interactive ways. At the same time, working with LLMs in the classroom highlights the fundamental differences between human language processing and the computational approach of LLMs, including criticisms of the nature of their \u2018understanding\u2019 and \u2018creativity\u2019. The article argues for a critical integration of chatbots into Dutch language and literature education, with an emphasis on \u2018conscious literacy\u2019 and experiential learning, and discusses the ethical considerations as well as the shifting role of the Dutch studies scholar in this new landscape.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutch scholarly journal TNTL just published my article &#8216;Looking at Language with Chatbots&#8217;. Here is the link; the abstract is here: The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has profound implications for both research and education, also within linguistics. This article explores how chatbots can serve as innovative tools for the didactics of reflection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-didactics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanoostendorp.nl\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanoostendorp.nl\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanoostendorp.nl\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanoostendorp.nl\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanoostendorp.nl\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vanoostendorp.nl\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/vanoostendorp.nl\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanoostendorp.nl\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanoostendorp.nl\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanoostendorp.nl\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}