인공지능과 빅데이터 관련 영어 전공 수업에 대한 한국 대학생 학습자의 인식

Abstract

This study examined Korean undergraduate students’ perceptions toward English major courses on artificial intelligence and big data. Twenty-one Korean undergraduate students participated in an online survey designed to observe their interests in new technologies based on Artificial Intelligence (AI), perceptions toward newly developed English major courses on practices and applications of AI and big data, and other wide-ranging concerns about such developing technologies. In addition, two students participated in an in-depth interview on the topic. The results of the survey revealed the participants’ keen interests in the field of technologies evidencing the needs and desires for basic and substantial knowledge on new technologies pertinent to their major. In addition, they demonstrated very low to no anxiety in acquiring new AI-technologies and applications; rather, they expressed an extensive motivation to engage in learning them. However, the interview results showed that the curriculum should be revised to create more courses considering students’ levels towards new technologies. Overall, these results may suggest the demands for modifying the current English major courses to better meet the students’ needs in such rapidly-changing 4th industrial revolution era.