THE STATE OF THE PROBLEM OF USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRACTICE AND ITS IMPACT ON THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION (BASED ON THE EXAMPLE OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32782/NPU-VOU.2025.2(97).09Keywords:
artificial intelligence, digitalization of learning, foreign language teaching, project-based learning, teamworkAbstract
The article is devoted to the assessment of the prospects for the use of artificial intelligence in pedagogical practice, including teaching foreign languages. The article analyzes the state of the problem of using AI in the educational process of higher education institutions, including in the process of teaching a foreign language. The paper presents the results of the research and practical experiment on the use of AI and the challenges that need to be solved at the university level, not just by the teacher. The results of the questionnaire indicate the urgent need to modernize the educational material, focus on project and teamwork of students not only in seminars and during individual work, but also change the approaches and requirements for term papers and diploma theses, including reducing the number of text tasks that are easily generated by AI and making tasks more practical and professionally oriented. The article provides examples of practical tasks using AI technologies that can be used in the process of teaching a foreign language. The results presented in the article prove that the role of the teacher remains important and key in the educational process, although AI is gradually improving some functions of the teacher, namely explaining new or complex material, gradually turning into a “tutor”, but does not change the learning paradigm at the moment. These developments prove that learning a foreign language cannot yet be replaced by AI, because despite the ability to perform many tasks thanks to AI assistants, students do not have enough knowledge, experience and self-study skills.
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