Investigating EFL Instructors’ Perspectives Toward the Effect of Using ChatGPT in Learning Tenses: Significant and Challenges
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https://doi.org/10.25130/jfa.conf.10.3.23Keywords:
ChatGPT, Instructors‟ Perspectives, EFL students, grammar tensesAbstract
The use of ChatGPT in teaching and learning process become one of the fundamental tools that most educators and students use in learning new information or preparing a new task. This study aims to investigate the university instructors’ perspectives toward the significant and the challenges that face EFL students in using ChatGPT in learning grammar tenses. Also, to reveal the difference between lecturers’ perspectives due to gender variable. To achieve the aims, the following questions were set: (1) What are the significant of using ChatGPT in learning tenses from the instructors’ perspectives? (2) What are the challenges of using ChatGPT in learning tenses from the instructors’ perspectives? (3) is there a difference of instructors’ perspectives due to gender variable? The participants were 9 male and female lecturers from the College of Arts, College of Education for Humanities, and College of Education for Women at Tikrit University. A quantitative research design is used. A questionnaire was prepared to collect the data of the study. The validity and the reliability of the questionnaire were verified. To obtain the results, SPSS statistical program will be used. The results revealed that the university lecturers have positive perspectives toward using ChatGPT in teaching English tenses as an instructional tool that aid the teaching process. The ChatGPT has features that facilitate teaching tenses
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