AI Chatbot Interaction on Enhancing Strategic Competence in B1 EFL Students

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dc.contributor.authorDíaz Ortiz, Carlos
dc.date.accessioned2026-05-22T19:42:13Z
dc.date.available2026-05-22T19:42:13Z
dc.date.issued2025-05-06
dc.description.abstractLanguage learning teaching has been impacted by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the tools it provides have become an important tool in developing the necessary communicative skills. This research is to find the effect of the AI chatbot interaction for enhancing the learners' strategic competence in B1 English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners at Colegio Bilingüe Marie Clarac. Based in communicative language teaching and theory of strategic competence, the research design is characterized as mixed methods, comprising pre- and post-test assessments, surveys and interviews to explore chatbot-mediated language learning. The study investigates how planning, monitoring and regulation strategies for effective communication are encouraged by chatbot interactions. It is found that AI chatbots help improve learners' structure of discourse, selfmonitor language use, and exploit repair strategies that are conducive to increased conversational fluency and autonomy. Results from the statistical analyses show significant increases in indicators of strategic competence following the intervention, echoing strong evidence of the utility of AI feedback and adaptive scaffolding. This study adds to the existing knowledge base on AI assisted language learning showing how chatbots can be used as apt learning tools in terms of being interactive, responsive, and as a personalised tool of learning. Finally, this research ends with the recommendation on including AI chatbots into EFL curricula to complement the learners’ competence gaps in the use of strategies and promote communicative proficiency in real life settings. Longitudinal impacts and the scalability of chatbot mediated learning across different linguistic and educational contexts is a field for future research.
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversidad Bolivariana del Ecuador
dc.identifier.citationDíaz Ortiz, C. (2025). AI Chatbot Interaction on Enhancing Strategic Competence in B1 EFL Students [Master thesis, Universidad Bolivariana del Ecuador].
dc.identifier.other418.0071
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.ube.edu.ec/handle/123456789/3695
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversidad Bolivariana del Ecuador
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPM-PI-A24-01P1-10
dc.rightshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
dc.subjectAI Chatbots
dc.subjectStrategic Competence
dc.subjectEFL Learning
dc.subjectLanguage Acquisition
dc.subjectCommunicative Strategies
dc.titleAI Chatbot Interaction on Enhancing Strategic Competence in B1 EFL Students
dc.title.alternativeInteracción con un chatbot de IA para mejorar la competencia estratégica en estudiantes de inglés como lengua extranjera (EFL) de nivel B1
dc.typeThesis
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