Percepciones docentes sobre el uso de ChatGPT como apoyo en la enseñanza  del inglés como lengua extranjera

María Emilia  Paida Torres; Ibeth Cristina Tipán Pacha; Verónica Alexandra Ruales Peralta; Edison Xavier Guillen Ortiz

doi:10.56200/mried.v4i11.10098

Authors

María Emilia Paida Torres Colegio Fiscal Vicente Rocafuerte, Guayaquil-Ecuador https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8449-2814
Ibeth Cristina Tipán Pacha Escuela de Educación Básica Teodoro Wolf. Quito-Ecuador
Verónica Alexandra Ruales Peralta Unidad Educativa Antisana, Quito-Ecuador
Edison Xavier Guillen Ortiz Unidad Educativa Isidro Ayora. Quito-Ecuador https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6288-2975

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56200/mried.v4i11.10098

Keywords:

ChatGPT, English teaching, artificial intelligence, teacher perception, autonomous learning

Abstract

Artificial intelligence drives profound educational changes. ChatGPT emerges as a support tool in English language teaching, although it presents ethical and methodological challenges, demanding critical reflection from teachers. The objective of this research was to analyze the perceptions of English as a foreign language teachers regarding the use of ChatGPT as a support tool in the teaching-learning process.

A qualitative phenomenological-hermeneutic approach was used; fifteen English teachers from five institutions in Quito participated, through semi-structured interviews analyzed with inductive coding and ATLAS.ti software. The results indicated that the teachers valued ChatGPT as support for autonomous English practice but warned about limitations in accuracy.

They highlighted their mediating role and proposed supervised pedagogical strategies for its integration. It is concluded that the research emphasizes the active role of teachers and proposes ethical and didactic strategies to strengthen autonomous English language learning.

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Author Biographies

María Emilia Paida Torres, Colegio Fiscal Vicente Rocafuerte, Guayaquil-Ecuador

Colegio Fiscal Vicente Rocafuerte, Guayaquil-Ecuador

Ibeth Cristina Tipán Pacha, Escuela de Educación Básica Teodoro Wolf. Quito-Ecuador

Escuela de Educación Básica Teodoro Wolf. Quito-Ecuador

Verónica Alexandra Ruales Peralta, Unidad Educativa Antisana, Quito-Ecuador

Unidad Educativa Antisana, Quito-Ecuador

Edison Xavier Guillen Ortiz, Unidad Educativa Isidro Ayora. Quito-Ecuador

Unidad Educativa Isidro Ayora. Quito-Ecuador

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