Using Artificial Intelligence for Developing Tasks Aimed at Testing Lexical Skills

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently at the stage of rapid development. In education artificial intelligence is used as a tool to support the work of a teacher in various realms: to give automated feedback, to develop tasks and lesson plans and to create personalized learning systems. However, most researchers mention test development only as a prospect for the use of AI, without considering the actual process of creating tasks. Which is why this research aims at studying the abilities of artificial intelligence to generate tasks aimed at testing lexical skills. This research is practically significant since it offers a spreadsheet with description of the most effective AI tools for task development. In order to increase the efficiency of further practical utilization of this research, a set of the most effective prompts for task development was created. In the course of this research certain qualitative methods are applied, such as the analysis of the tasks created by AI and comparative analysis of prompts. As for the quantitative methods, the data on the amount of time spent by AI to complete each prompt and on the amount of time needed for a human to edit the task is collected. As a result, a set of tasks for the HSE course “English for the Current Sociocultural Agenda” were created.