The role of large language models (LLMs) in education is an increasing area of interest today, considering the new opportunities they offer for teaching, learning, and assessment. This cutting-edge tutorial provides an overview of the educational applications of NLP and the impact that the recent advances in LLMs have had on this field. We will discuss the key challenges and opportunities presented by LLMs, grounding them in the context of four major educational applications: reading, writing, and speaking skills, and intelligent tutoring systems (ITS). This COLING 2025 tutorial is designed for researchers and practitioners interested in the educational applications of NLP and the role LLMs have to play in this area. It is the first of its kind to address this timely topic.

翻译：大语言模型在教育中的角色正日益受到关注，这源于其为教学、学习和评估带来的新机遇。本前沿教程概述了自然语言处理在教育中的应用，以及大语言模型的最新进展对该领域产生的影响。我们将结合四大教育应用场景——阅读、写作、口语技能及智能导学系统，深入探讨大语言模型带来的关键挑战与机遇。本教程为COLING 2025设计，面向对自然语言处理教育应用及大语言模型在该领域作用感兴趣的研究者和实践者，是首个针对这一前沿议题的系统性专题教程。