测试大模型能否像老师一样纠正英语学习错误并讲清原因

While various organizations now actively encourage LLM use in classrooms, we still lack rigorous, systematic evaluations of how well these models actually perform the fundamental tasks of language pedagogy. This paper examines whether state-of-the-art LLMs can deliver the kind of corrective feedback and methodological explanations that language learners need. The study tests multiple large language models on their ability to identify, correct, and explain common learner mistakes in English, by systematically varying model parameters to investigate how these technical adjustments affect output quality, pedagogical clarity, and consistency, along with using retrieval-augmented generation to query methodological data. The evaluation employs automated metrics (GLEU, BERTScore) but also human expert judgments to capture dimensions that purely computational measures miss: linguistic nuance, cultural sensitivity, and instructional appropriateness. While models demonstrate impressive surface-level correction abilities, their explanations often lack the terminological and domain knowledge that effective language teaching requires, suggesting that current enthusiasm for AI-assisted language learning may be outpacing our understanding of these systems' actual pedagogical competence.