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AI Integration into Language Education and Teacher Identity: An Ecological Perspective

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This study explores how the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools into language education can influence language teachers’ identity from an ecological perspective. To do so, 16 teachers were selected based on purposeful sampling and completed a narrative frame. To corroborate data, seven of them (based on the richness of their narrative frames) attended a semi-structured interview in which they discussed the integration of AI in their classes and how it impacted their identity. The semi-structured interviews were translated and transcribed and along with the narrative frames were analyzed by employing thematic analysis. The findings of this study revealed that AI integration in language education had a significant impact on participating teachers’ identity and shaped their identity at different ecological layers of micro-pedagogical, meso-institutional, and macro-societal. These findings may assist teachers and teacher educators in raising awareness about AI integration into language education and how it can construct language teacher identity.

Source: Language Teaching Research Quarterly

DOI: 10.32038/ltrq.2025.47.01

Authors: Nadia Satvati, Jaber Kamali, Fatemeh Safian Boldaji, Muhammad Khodadadi, Saeid Akhondi

Institutions: Islamic Azad University Roudehen Branch, Ibn Haldun University, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Islamic Azad University South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University Kerman

Language: English

Topic: Artificial Intelligence in Education

Subfield: Information Systems

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4409553331

FWCI: 22.14

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Cited by: 20

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