TRANSFORMING ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATIONTHROUGH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS

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This article investigates the potential for AI to transform English language education when used with clear pedagogy, ethical practice and teacher mediation. It draws on a wide range of research into the use of AI in English language teaching and presents the main findings of this body of research in an IMRAD structured article. The article first establishes the claim that while AI is not replacing the English language teacher, it does offer the teacher a range of new tools to support learning opportunities that are personalized, include timely feedback, promote communicative language use and are as inclusive as possible. The article then goes on to present a wide range of existing tools and functions, currently used to support English language learning and teaching, including generative chatbots, AI writing assistants, automated feedback and assessment, speech recognition and pronunciation, adaptive learning and learning analytics. The article then evaluates the affordances and the risks of a range of tools and functions for each of the four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing, before offering a set of recommendations for responsible use of a wide range of existing AI tools and functions in English language education.