Generative AI-Mediated Speaking Practice and Intercultural Communicative Competence in EFL Contexts: A Scoping Review of the Literature (2022-2026)
Speaking is widely regarded as the most challenging skill for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners, and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has rapidly become a prominent resource for oral practice, while a parallel but largely separate strand of research has examined how artificial intelligence (AI)-med...