Second Language Teacher Education: post #685 — TG.ME

💡Newly published article by Ghiasvand et al. in Acta Psychologica. Research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and L2 education has recently become a flourishing line of thinking. However, the psycho-affective states of teachers regarding AI tools have received insufficient scholarly attention. To address this void, this cross-cultural study examined the causes and solutions of Iranian and Turkish EFL teachers' AI adoption reluctance.The results indicated that teachers of both contexts similarly considered ‘lack of familiarity’, ‘lack of training’, ‘poor infrastructure’, ‘resistance to change’, ‘fear or technophobia’, and ‘institutional rules/policies’ as the most frequent causes of AI adoption reluctance. Additionally, the participants in both contexts suggested some solutions for AI adoption reluctance, which involved similarities and dissimilarities.