THE INTEGRATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED APPS IN INDONESIAN AND INDIAN ELL CLASSROOM CONTEXT: THE LECTURERS’ PERCEPTION
Keywords:
AI-based apps, Perception, ELL ClassroomAbstract
The use of Artificial Intelligence-based apps (hereafter, AI-based apps) in ELL classroom has received massive attention. It can affect the teaching learning process as well as the achievement of the students. Therefore, this research was conducted to investigate how the lecturers from Indonesia and India perceive the use of AI-based apps in their ELL classroom. To collect a rich set of data, online questionnaire, interview and focus group discussion were conducted to the representatives of Indonesia and India who experienced integrating AI-based apps within their teaching learning process. The findings could be broken down into three divisions. The first finding implies that all lecturers had positive perception upon the use of AI-based apps in ELL classroom. The second finding implies there were 8 major challenges faced by the lecturers. The last finding figures out AI brought varied merits and demerits in ELL classrooms.