ESLA in Senior High School Spoken English Teaching: Dilemmas and Solutions

Jia Liu

doi:10.63313/IJSSEH.9037

Authors

Jia Liu School of Foreign Languages, China West Normal University, Nanchong, China Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63313/IJSSEH.9037

Keywords:

ELSA, Intelligent Speech-Assisted Tool, Spoken English Teaching, Speech Recognition

Abstract

This study focuses on the adaptation issues of ELSA (English Language Speech Assistant), an artificial intelligence speech-assisted tool, in senior high school spoken English teaching. Through a systematic analysis of three dimensions—educational adaptability, technical accuracy, and teaching interactivity—it reveals the core deficiencies of ELSA in the specialized training for the Gaokao spoken English test, classroom management support, and the depth of cultural teaching. The findings indicate that ELSA currently suffers from critical problems such as insufficient adaptation to Gaokao question types, recognition bias of dialectal accents, delayed real-time feedback, and lack of teacher-student interaction, making it difficult to meet the demands of core literacy-oriented senior high school English teaching. To address these problems, this study proposes a multi-level optimization strategy: in terms of educational adaptability, develop a specialized module for the Gaokao spoken English test and enhance the teacher-end management functions; in terms of technical accuracy, construct a "semantic-phonetic" joint model and optimize the real-time feedback system; in terms of teaching interactivity, reconstruct the educational value of gamification and innovate a multimodal integration model. Verified by the strategies, this study provides a theoretical framework for the localized upgrading of ELSA and a practical paradigm for the in-depth integration of AI educational technology in senior high school English teaching, which is of significant reference value for promoting the organic integration of intelligent technology and the cultivation of core competencies in the English discipline.

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