ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN LANGUAGE LEARNING: ASSESSMENT OF ACCESSIBILITY AND USABILITY IN NIGERIAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Abstract

The study sought to assess the accessibility and usability of Artificial Intelligence in Nigerian public secondary schools. The population of the study was all public secondary school in Ondo state while the study sample consisted of four hundred (400) senior secondary school students in Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State. The research design used for the study was descriptive research of a survey type. A self-structured questionnaire of Likert- type four point rating scale was used to gather data from the respondents. Findings revealed that secondary school students’ accessibility to artificial intelligence usage in language learning is low with the mean score of 2.19 and the average mean of 1.59 showed that language students’ use of artificial intelligence is very low. The study concluded that many Nigerian public secondary schools students do not have access to artificial intelligence for language learning, and this has made the usability of AI a mirage in Nigerian secondary schools. The study recommended that; school managements should encourage secondary school students in the use of Artificial intelligence (AI), and the use of AI has the potential of improving students English language skills if properly managed. The stakeholders in collaboration with government should provide internet facilities, computers as well as enabling environment that will encourage the use of artificial intelligence for language learning in public secondary schools