Balancing Human and AI: Exploring the Role of DeepSeek in High School Oral English Teaching

Yunyi Su

doi:10.54254/2753-7064/2025.KM28460

Communications in Humanities ResearchOpen access

Balancing Human and AI: Exploring the Role of DeepSeek in High School Oral English Teaching

Research Article

Open Access

Balancing Human and AI: Exploring the Role of DeepSeek in High School Oral English Teaching

Yunyi Su ^1*

¹ Taihu University

^*Corresponding author: justinee4231@gmail.com

Published on 23 October 2025

CHR Vol.89

ISSN (Print): 2753-7072

ISSN (Online): 2753-7064

ISBN (Print): 978-1-80590-459-5

ISBN (Online): 978-1-80590-460-1

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Abstract

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), its application in language education has gained increasing attention. But up to now, research has largely been devoted to higher learning or English learning in general, without much examination of its application to teaching of oral English at the high school level. Therefore, the following research investigates application of DeepSeek to teaching of oral English at Chinese high school, including its operation, benefit, drawback, and potential developmental path. Both the conducive influence, like the individualized feed-back, teaching of higher learning motivation, and boost of teaching efficiency－in addition to the harmful influence, including over-dependency of the learners of the AI program software and questions over authenticity and formal correctness of AI product, can be identified from the following research. Based on reference to such matters, practical agendas are proposed by the following research, for example, application of equilibrium-oriented teaching methods favorable to autonomy of thoughts, reinforcement of instructor supervision and knowledge competence toward assurance of authenticity, and realization of human-AI co-evaluation to accommodate tech efficiency and human professional competence. The outcomes aspire to contribute to AI-based teaching research by proclaiming the specific existence of the AI program to the teaching of oral English at the high school level, and indicate its potential significance to developing communicative competency and intercultural competence under the AI-partitioned world.

Keywords:

DeepSeek, AI-assisted Language Teaching, High School Oral English, Communicative Competence

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