Using Generative AI Tool ChatGPT in Language Teaching from University Language Teachers' Perspective

Since the advent of ChatGPT as a powerful generative AI tool, there has been a significant impact on education and academia. This platform, with its ability to generate content and provide detailed responses, has opened up a new field of research and applications in teaching in general and in language teaching in particular. ChatGPT offers educators useful tools to generate teaching materials, suggest teaching ideas and create assessments. Using the descriptive qualitative method, this research employed the instrument of interview with 21 teachers of different foreign languages at a university in Vietnam. The findings showed multiple utilities provided by various applications of ChatGPT in language teaching from the teaching of the four macro-language skills to the teaching of translation and interpreting as well as vocabulary, grammar. The research then put forward a number of implications for effective use of ChatGPT for improved educational quality in the 4.0 era.