ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION: IMPACT ON ENGLISH LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT, COLLABORATIVE, AND SELF-REGULATED LEARNING

Abstract

AI has become a source of many strategies of developmental enhancement to promote and enhance the learning of the English language. There is a need to improve learning achievement, collaborative learning, and the self-regulated skills of students in the university, this is the reason why one of the advents in AI is the AI-mediated learning instructions to EFL learners. The study sample investigates the impact of performance of the AI mediated learning instruction on three elements comprising learning achievement, collaborative learning, and self-regulated skills of learning among the university students undertaking their undergraduate programs in Saudia Arabia. Students were chosen by systematic random sampling technique and a total student number of 55 were sampled based on the sample size of 300 students in Saudia University. The respondents of the study were separated into the experiment group (n=30) and the control group (n=25). The instruction techniques that were given on AI-based learning were received by the experimental group and the Conventional teaching method was derived by the control group. Pre and post-test was also administered among the students of the two groups in an attempt to analyze the constructive results of the treatment intervention. The results of the study depicted that the English learning strategies used in the study have transformed the nature of learning of the students by improving their collaborative and self-regulated English learning abilities and their language attainments. The study results, both quantitative and qualitative, emphasized the beneficial effects of AI-based learning practice that the University of Saudia Arab has implemented. The study recommended that the AI should also focus on better the experience of personalized learning among the students to prepare self-motivating and self-regulated students which would not be dependent on their lecturers in any way.