أطراس
Volume 6, Numéro 2, Pages 64-75
2025-07-15
Measuring Teachers’ Ai Literacy Through Chatgpt Prompt Engineering
Authors : Dou Abdelbasset . Rim Kelthoume .
Abstract
While the potential of generative AI in education is widely acknowledged, gaps in educators' AI-specific knowledge and skills pose significant challenges to successful integration. In an Algerian EFL teaching context, this research investigates the relationship between prompt engineering skills and the perceived effectiveness of AI-generated responses as a subjective measure of teachers’ AI literacy. Understanding this relationship is crucial for informing the development of effective professional development programs tailored to enhance EFL teachers’ AI literacy and, consequently, their ability to effectively utilize AI tools in their classrooms. Forty-two EFL teachers, recruited through convenience sampling, participated in a prompt engineering task using ChatGPT, followed by a questionnaire assessing their perceptions of AI tools and their AI literacy. A specifically designed rubric evaluated the quality of teachers' engineered prompts, while a rating scale measured their satisfaction with ChatGPT's responses. Results revealed a moderate positive correlation between prompt quality and the perceived effectiveness of AI-generated outputs. Teachers who crafted clearer, more specific, and strategically structured prompts were more likely to rate ChatGPT's responses as valuable for EFL instruction. Qualitative analysis of teacher reflections highlighted the comfort with general technology use but with the uncertainty and self-reported lack of AI-specific literacy. This gap manifested in difficulties optimizing prompts for desired outcomes and a reliance on more generalized prompts. The study underscores the need for targeted professional development initiatives to enhance EFL teachers' AI literacy, empowering them to unlock the transformative potential of generative AI technologies in language education.
Keywords
ChatGPT ; Prompt Engineering ; EFL Teachers ; AI Literacy
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