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Volume: 1 Issue: 2
Year: 2025, Page: 191-200,
Received: June 10, 2025 Accepted: June 28, 2025 Published: July 29, 2025
Teaching of English language in Bangladesh is undergoing a metamorphosis because of the advent of ICT and the use of AI. In light of research on the use of ICTs and materials in public tertiary level education in the context of EFL pedagogy, this paper explores the possible impacts of AI-based ICT tools on the quality EFL tertiary level classroom instruction. This background highlights the established status of Bangladeshi graduates' communicative proficiency despite the uninterrupted presence of English. The study employs a mixed-methods approach, including surveys and interviews, to investigate the impact of AI tools on learner motivation, autonomy, and language skill development. The findings indicate that AI in the education sector is useful for boosting learner engagement, facilitating a customized learning experience, and shortening the educational gap. But obstacles remain in infrastructure, teacher preparedness and reliance on the outputs of A.I. Students cited increased confidence in speaking and writing, while teachers considered AI an add-on rather than a replacement for their resource library. Recommendations are organized along lines of systematic teacher education, judicious AI implementation, and stronger digital literacy components in ELT programs. The study concludes arguing that as ICT is insufficient to enhance language proficiency and testing (LPT) and communicative competence (CC) of EFL learners in Bangladesh alone. Nevertheless, it can with the use of AI-assisted ICT in ELT brings a revolution and a new dimension of attaining LPT and CC.
Keywords: AI in ELT, ICT, EFL learning in Bangladesh, Communicative Competence, EdTech.
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Karmaker, P. R. (2025). AI-enhanced ICT for empowerment of EFL learners: A new horizon of English language teaching in Bangladeshi Universities. Journal of Discourse Review, 1(2), 191-200.