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<article xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/1.1/xsd/JATS-journalpublishing1-mathml3.xsd" dtd-version="1.1" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">IEF</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Education Forum</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn>3083-4902</issn><eissn>2981-8605</eissn><publisher><publisher-name>Bio-Byword Scientific Publishing Pty. Ltd.</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.26689/IEF.v4i10.16094</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title>Construction of Situational Teaching Mode for AI‑Empowered English Public Speaking Course</title><url>https://artdesignp.com/journal/IEF/4/10/10.26689/IEF.v4i10.16094</url><author>LiaoZiyuan</author><pub-date pub-type="publication-year"><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>4</volume><issue>10</issue><history><date date-type="pub"><published-time>2026-11-11</published-time></date></history><abstract>Under the modern education system, college English public speaking courses are undergoing profound transformations in teaching approaches. With the in‑depth integration of artificial intelligence technology and foreign language education, technical strengths including intelligent simulation interaction, situational modeling, speech evaluation, and personalized data analysis provide innovative paths for implementing situational teaching in English public speaking courses. On this basis, this paper mainly explores the construction paths of the situational teaching mode for AI‑empowered English public speaking courses, so as to promote the digital, situational, and precision‑oriented transformation of teaching modes for English public speaking courses.</abstract><keywords>Artificial intelligence, Digitalization, English public speaking, Oral English, Cross‑culture, Contextualization</keywords></article-meta></front><body/><back><ref-list><ref id="B1" content-type="article"><label>1</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>[1] Ding XR, 2025, Exploration on the Reform of English Public Speaking Course Centered on the Cultivation of International Communication Competence. Modern English, 2025(21): 39&amp;ndash;41.
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