Vietnamese Graduate Students’ Perspectives on the Use of ChatGPT

This chapter reports a study on the perspectives of Vietnamese graduate students of TESOL on the use of ChatGPT. Its seeks to address how Vietnamese graduate students of TESOL perceive the use of ChatGPT as a learning tool in a course in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and whether they think ChatGPT can replace the teacher. The study employed qualitative quantitative questionnaires to collect data from 32 graduate students at a university in Dong Nai Province, Vietnam. The results showed that the graduate students perceived ChatGPT to be an effective language tool. Additionally, ChatGPT was believed to improve language classroom understanding, engagement, and self-confidence, making it ideal for project conception and ideation. All 32 participants believed that ChatGPT could not replace teachers, shedding light on limits of technology in language education. The results suggest a harmonic synergy between humans and technological advances in language education.