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The growing percentage of fully online classes has highlighted the necessity to explore Computer-Mediated Communication Artificial Intelligence (CMC AI) in English language class. This study aimed to investigate students' achievement and perceptions in English grammar class. It used a mix-method approach. The participants of the study were the undergraduate students of the English Education Department. The result of the pre-test mean score was 69.07, while the post-test mean score was 80.26. Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) in Test Statistics of Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test shows 0.000, which is lower than 0.05. Therefore, there was a significant improvement difference of the scores of the students before and after being taught by using CMC AI. The interview and questionnaire data showed students' overall positive perceptions toward the use of CMC AI within the English grammar class. The students mentioned their positive perceptions that CMC AI can improve autonomous andfun learning. It can also be used anytime and anywhere as a private tutor and partner, challenging and enhancing resources in learning English language.
Keywords: artificial intelligence, computer-mediated communication, online learning, students ' achievement
INTRODUCTION
Technological education has been seen as a need in today's world. The advancement of technologies has a variety of effects on English teaching. A computer is used by teachers and students to assist learning in a classroom setting. Numerous computer facilities encourage educational activities. Therefore, studies and education have attempted to find creative ways to integrate technology tools that fulfill the requirements of both teachers and students in the teaching and learning process. Asif et al.(2022) stated that technology was found to have a positive effect on the English students' achievement. CMC is one strategy that can help to leam. It is an online application that provides communication, online simulation, and game simulation. In terms of the fluency, adaptability, and originality aspects of creative thinking, computer-mediated communication outperformed face-to-face communication and had a higher sense of media richness (Chao et al., 2020). CMC can be done via human-to-human and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
CMC human-to-human requires interaction among people. As a millennial generation, students use the internet as their primary form of communication. CMC is in daily usage. It is often used in the learning context. It has been encouraged to improve communication and collaboration among...