AI in the L2 Classroom

Academic Insights

• 85% of students use AI for coursework, raising concerns about academic honesty and integrity.
• Students find AI useful yet distrust it due to privacy, equity, and job fears.
• All students still prefer human teachers over AI, valuing real interpersonal interaction.
• Instructors worry about plagiarism, reduced creativity, and want AI training mainly for monitoring misuse.
• Students show limited awareness of ethical risks like bias, privacy issues, and digital divides.
• Unmonitored AI use may weaken motivation, reduce critical thinking, and widen learning inequities.

Apply This Now

• Build AI-proof tasks (analysis, critique, reasoning) so learning depends on thinking, not on AI-written outputs.
• Talk openly with students about privacy, credibility, and bias so they can use AI responsibly.
• Keep student–teacher connection central; avoid replacing interaction with automated tools.

Add This in Your Lesson

Ask students to critique an AI-generated paragraph for Accuracy, coherence, bias or stereotyping, missing reasoning. This builds higher-order thinking and reduces over-reliance on AI-generated writing.

Avoid This Mistake

Letting AI tools replace foundational learning behaviors—reading, reasoning, and original writing—which can lead to intellectual laziness, disengagement, and widening skill gaps.