A Systematic Review on the Use of Emerging Technologies in Teaching English as an Applied Language at the University Level

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18450%2F23%3A50019965" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18450/23:50019965 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2079-8954/11/1/42" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2079-8954/11/1/42</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/systems11010042" target="_blank" >10.3390/systems11010042</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A Systematic Review on the Use of Emerging Technologies in Teaching English as an Applied Language at the University Level

Original language description

At present, emerging technologies, such as machine learning, deep learning, or various forms of artificial intelligence are penetrating different fields of education, including foreign language education (FLE). Moreover, the current young generation was born into the technological environment, and they perceive technologies as being an indispensable part of their everyday life. However, they mainly use technologies in their informal learning, but there is not much research into emerging technologies in FLE, namely in teaching and learning English as an applied language. Therefore, the purpose of this systematic review is to identify, bring together, compare and analyze all of the technologies that are currently efficiently employed in foreign language teaching and learning, and based on the findings of the detected experimental studies, we provide specific pedagogical implications on how to use these technologies in the acquisition of English as an applied language at the university level. The methodology followed the PRISMA guidelines for systematic reviews and meta-analyses. The results of the detected experimental studies revealed that there was a serious lack of the latest technologies, such as chatbots or virtual reality (VR) devices, that are being empirically employed in a foreign language (FL) education. Moreover, mobile apps are merely focused on the development of FL vocabulary. The findings also indicate that although the FL teachers might theoretically know about these latest technological devices, such as neural machine translation, they do not know how to practically implement them in their teaching process. Therefore, this research suggests that teachers must be trained and pedagogically guided on how to purposefully implement them in their FL classes to support traditional instruction in order to identify what skills or language structures could be developed through their use. In addition, it is also claimed that more experimental studies are needed to clearly the evidence and its usefulness in teaching a foreign language as an applied language.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50302 - Education, special (to gifted persons, those with learning disabilities)

Project

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Continuities

O - Projekt operacniho programu

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Systems

ISSN

2079-8954

e-ISSN

2079-8954

Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

"Article number: 42"

UT code for WoS article

000927196700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85146743296