The language teaching field is expanded by the dynamics to incorporate technology, particularly when teaching English. Teachers must upskill themselves to use technology in their classrooms to provide students with the most up-to-date learning environment. Generative Artificial Intelligence technology applications that can be used in English language instruction and learning include but are not limited to Chatbots, AI-based writing assistants, AI-based grading tools, and AI-based language learning applications. Because of their proven benefits and ease of use, generative AI tools have the potential to become a more popular tool used by educators to support the acquisition of modern languages. This research aims to assess the knowledge, use, and disposition status of a sample of English language teachers from Turkey and Lebanon in generative AI tools in their teaching practices. Descriptive and inferential statistics are used including frequencies and percentages and t-tests, cross-tabulations, and regression analysis. The Statistical Product and Service Solutions IBM SPSS version 27.0 is used for data analysis. The selection of the sample of teachers is based on convenience where these teachers were contacted via email to fill in the research survey. Findings show that 60% of the teachers are familiar with the tools, the most used tools are AI-based writing assistants and AI-based language learning applications, each about 30%, and Chatbots (about 18%). Only 55% of the teachers have confidence in their skills to deal with AI tools. Finally, 72.5% of the teachers will not exclude generative AI applications if allowed. These findings serve as an insight to train and develop teachers for teaching endeavors to meet the 21st-century teaching requirements.

Authors:
Ghada Chehimi, Bogazici University, Turkey

About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Ghada Chehimi is a professor of Applied Linguistics and has been in the ELT field for over 20 years. She is currently teaching English at Bogazici University and working on research in language teaching

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