Exploring the Pathways for Cultivating Digital Instructional Design Competencies in Foreign Language Pre-service Teachers through Generative AI

Li Xiaoye

doi:10.64649/yh.eg.issn3078-4794.20260409

Exploring the Pathways for Cultivating Digital Instructional Design Competencies in Foreign Language Pre-service Teachers through Generative AI

期刊: 《Educational Guide》 DOI:10.64649/yh.eg.issn3078-4794.20260409 全文阅读返回期刊

Li Xiaoye

College of Foreign Languages, Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou, Henan 466000, China.

摘要

The rapid proliferation of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is profoundly reshaping the knowledge base and practical landscape of foreign language teacher education. While pre-service teachers have acquired basic familiarity with AI applications, their capacity to embed AI throughout the entire instructional design process and achieve deep human-AI collaboration remains underdeveloped. Drawing upon the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework and its extended form in the AI context—Intelligent-TPACK, and informed by the iterative design logic of Microteaching Lesson Study (MLS), this paper constructs a four-stage closed-loop cultivation pathway: “AI collaborative lesson planning—simulated teaching—AI-assisted reflection—instructional revision.” The study proposes that the effectiveness of the cultivation pathway hinges on the synergistic advancement of four dimensions: the integration of foundational AI literacy with pedagogical frameworks, systematic training in pedagogical prompt engineering, cultivation of critical evaluation competencies for AI-generated content, and the development of practical habits of reflective adaptation and iterative refinement. The pathway emphasizes that GenAI should not replace teachers’ design thinking but rather serve as a cognitive scaffold for developing pedagogical judgment and professional autonomy, offering a replicable operational framework for cultivating digital intelligence competencies in foreign language pre-service teachers.

关键词

generative artificial intelligence; foreign language pre-service teachers; digital instructional design; Intelligent-TPACK

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