This study examines the use of ChatGPT in students’ report-writing process in the course “Mini-project: British and American work styles”. The participants were 105 senior English majors at Thu Daub Mot University in Vietnam in the second semester of the 2024-2025 school year. This study investigates how students used ChatGPT while writing their reports and their perceptions of its use. A questionnaire containing both closed and open-ended items was administered at the end of the course to collect students’ responses. The results showed that the majority of students used ChatGPT during their writing process. They believed ChatGPT should be integrated into academic writing courses and intended to continue using it in future academic tasks. However, they indicated that more specific university guidelines on the use of AI tools should be provided.

Athletes often need to have good English skills to communicate with foreigners for different purposes. As known, many athletes are not able to speak English fluently. To enhance the national athletes’ English proficiency, the governmental institutions arrange various English courses for them. This study reflects the long-term (over seven years) teaching process of English to the athletes in terms of the English course content, namely General English and Sports English, topics, local teacher vs foreign teacher, teaching methods, evaluation criteria, implementation of visual means and AI. The study results are based on the teachers’ observational method and students’ feedback. Most students liked the English course because they could speak English through discussions and conversations and learn new vocabulary, including General English and Sports English (ESP). The students liked the lessons’ topics (e.g. hotel/restaurant reservation, shopping, ordering food, and sports injuries) which were usually taught using PPTs, handouts, Youtube, and Kahoot. AI as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Grammarly, Alexa, etc. was recently implemented in the teaching of athletes as well, facilitating the teaching and learning process and making it more effective and fun. Most athlete students were satisfied to have both a local and foreign teacher for the former could provide explanations in Chinese and the latter could help them to overcome the language barrier and gain confidence in speaking English. Most of the athlete students were motivated to improve their English to communicate internationally.