Opportunities and Challenges of Teaching Non- English Majors of Higher Vocational Education Spoken English in the Artificial Intelligence Era

This article is a discussion of applying artificial intelligence to the spoken English teaching of non-English majors in higher vocational education. First of all, the history of artificial intelligence, as well as guidance about applying artificial intelligence to education, was reviewed. Secondly, the status quo of spoken English teaching in higher vocational education was investigated from both the teachers’ and students’ perspectives. Thirdly, both ample opportunities and tough challenges of spoken English teaching in higher vocational education, which were presented by artificial intelligence, were analyzed. Lastly, suggestions for dealing with the tough challenges were proposed.