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Description
The rapid adoption of AI tools by university students has raised concerns about academic integrity, yet less attention has been paid to how AI simultaneously affects student comprehension and teacher sense?making, particularly in English?medium instruction (EMI) contexts. This practitioner inquiry explores one teacher’s observations of students’ AI use in a seminar assignment within a content?heavy EMI course on Globalization and Global issues. The study draws primarily
from reflective teaching journals, with students’ submitted seminar outlines used as documentary data to corroborate and nuance the teacher’s interpretations. Reflexive thematic analysis is used to identify emerging themes. Guided by the multidimensional engagement framework, the analysis suggests that students likely leveraged AI to produce linguistically adequate and well?structured presentations, sustaining behavioral engagement, while their cognitive engagement remained shallow. The study additionally surfaces the emotional complexity of teaching under institutional policy ambiguity and documents the informal detection strategies the teacher developed in response, contributing to emerging practitioner knowledge on navigating AI use in EMI environments. Implications are also drawn for oral assessment design, AI use disclosure guidelines, and teacher professional development in Vietnamese higher education, where institutional AI policies remain nascent.
Biography
Nguyễn Quỳnh Trang is a lecturer at the Division of International Studies, Faculty of English Language Teacher Education, University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (ULIS–VNU). She teaches English‑medium courses on globalization and area studies, focusing on the cultures and societies of the United Kingdom, the United States, Southeast Asia, and broader global issues. Her research interests include English‑medium instruction (EMI), language policy and Vietnam’s EFL‑to‑ESL transition, and the pedagogical and ethical implications of AI use in EMI classrooms and assessment. She is also interested in how international education shapes student identities and public diplomacy.
| Affiliate type | Vietnamese public school |
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