HARNESSING AI IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO ENHANCING CRITICAL READING AND ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING THROUGH MAGICSCHOOL AI
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This paper investigates the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in EFL classrooms, focusing on its potential to enhance critical reading and argumentative writing skills. As AI-powered tools increasingly provide personalized feedback, adaptive learning pathways, and support for higher-order thinking skills (HOT), they also help reduce teachers’ workload by facilitating routine tasks such as lesson planning and assessment. Drawing on the PICRAT model, this study examines the pedagogical potential of MagicSchool AI in fostering active, creative, and reflective engagement among EFL learners. It highlights how AI can support subskills, including text interpretation, critical evaluation, argument development, and revision, while also addressing the practical and ethical challenges of its adoption. Ultimately, the paper argues for a transformative rather than passive use of AI to improve learners’ linguistic, analytical, and evaluative capacities.
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