ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) TOOLS: AN INVESTIGATION ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE ABOUT THE BENEFITS AND DRAWBACKS

By Nguyễn Yến Ngọc, Nguyễn Thị Xuân Hồng
DOI: 10.37550/tdmu.EJS/2025.02.638

This is a descriptive study to find out students’ awareness about the benefits and harm that they have experienced from using the AI tools during their learning process. The study was founded on a survey and an interview among majored-English students at Thu Dau Mot University. The data was then This descriptive study aims at finding out students’ awareness about the benefits and harm that they have experienced from using AI tools during their learning process. A four-section survey including open and closed-ended questions was sent out, and 193 majored-English students at Thu Dau Mot University responded randomly. The striking finding is that although students preferred AI tools to support their learning, they themselves accepted the benefits gained and the challenges faced were just a little over the average. In particular, the participants confirmed that AI tools contribute much to the fast speed of their academic work completion, but AI also makes them passively think, become inflexible, and somewhat limit the ability to equip knowledge for their English language competence.