Artificial Intelligence Technology and College English Listening and Speaking Instruction: Applications, Challenges and Strategies

Amid global intelligent education reform, artificial intelligence (AI) has served as a core driver for the innovation in college English teaching, especially in listening and speaking instruction. This paper probes into how AI technology - including automated feedback mechanisms, conversational agents, personalized learning systems, and multimodal content generators - are being utilized to enhance college English teaching in terms of listening and speaking instruction. Simultaneously, it attempts to analyse the obstacles accompanying this technological shift: insufficient integration of technology and instruction, questioned academic integrity, lack of humanistic elements, weakened learner autonomy and concerns for data security. Based on that, the paper further proposes a blended "AI+HI" paradigm that conceptualizes artificial intelligence as a complementary instrument rather than a replacement for human pedagogical expertise.