AI-empowered applications effects on EFL learners’ engagement in the classroom and academic procrastination
Yi Ma, Mingyang Chen · 2024
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Yi Ma and Mingyang Chen study how AI-powered apps affect language learners' engagement and delay habits, in a 2024 paper. Tools such as ChatGPT and Duolingo now personalize English learning for millions of students. Yet flagging engagement and chronic procrastination still dog foreign language classrooms, and the apps' effect on both needed testing.
Ten intact classes, 350 students in all, split into an AI-app group and a comparison group. Surveys before and after the term measured emotional, mental, and behavioral engagement plus procrastination. The AI group showed significantly higher engagement after treatment. The authors discuss how such tools might also chip away at delay, informing smarter technology use in language teaching.
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| CREATOR | Yi Ma, Mingyang Chen |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |