The 2nd VietCALL International Convention (VietCALL 2026)

ABSTRACT
The integration of generative artificial intelligence (AI) into higher education raises questions about how tools such as Gemini affect foreign language writing and learners’ autonomy. Recent work on AI assisted writing mainly discussed learners’ perceived advantages and disadvantages; however, little attention has been paid to the aligned and diverging views of students and...

This study investigates the prompt engineering practices and skills of English-major students of UFLS, UDN using generative AI to assist their learning. It focuses on how students construct and refine prompts, the extent to which they apply prompting techniques to achieve learning objectives, and the challenges and training needs they encounter while interacting with generative AI. A...

This paper aims to explore primary school teachers’ attitudes toward utilizing Wayground, an AI-based educational platform, to create assessments for their classrooms. Specifically, the research focuses on teachers’ perceptions of the platform’s usefulness, benefits, and challenges in designing classroom assessments. With Wayground, teachers can create quizzes, adjust test materials, and...

Simple requests for help from generative AI (genAI) can lead a tool to perform work that teachers intended to be learning experiences for students. The purpose of this study is to investigate the pedagogical guardrails of commercial genAI tools by examining how they respond when a learner makes requests under different instructional boundaries. Using prompt-based discourse elicitation (PBDE)...

Teaching trend-description language is an important part of IELTS Writing Task 1, but it is still commonly taught through vocabulary lists and model sentences. Students may remember words such as increase, decline, or significantly, but they often have difficulty combining these words in grammatically and collocationally appropriate ways. Teachers may also select language patterns mainly from...

The transition from high school environment to university presents significant psychological and academic barriers for English-majored freshmen. Grounded in theories of learning adaptation and academic self-efficacy, this study investigates the factors influencing student well-being and performance during their first semester when they first enter university. Research findings indicate that...

While the use of AI tools in English language classrooms has gained significant attention, how young learners emotionally respond to this technology remains under-explored, particularly in non-metropolitan settings. To address this gap, fieldwork was conducted at a language center in Cao Lanh City, Dong Thap Province, examining 50 primary school students (aged 7–11) who interacted with AI...

Functioning as a powerful Large Language Model (LLM), generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) has helped encourage learners’ learning autonomy in many aspects which used to be considered challenging for self-learning like skill practice. In writing, it is utilized to create sample responses, which assists learners in visualizing the expectation interpreted from the band descriptors....