AIlingo: Contextual Language Learning with Artificial Intelligence in Real-World Contexts

Mastering foreign languages is essential in the globalized modern world in terms of career development and cross-cultural interactions. Mobile assisted language learning (MALL) provides a convenient and accessible platform, with recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) providing opportunities to improve contextualized learning experiences. This study presents AIlingo, an AI-enabled MALL tool designed to provide immersive language learning experiences within real-world contexts of learners. AIlingo uses pre-trained AI models for object detection, image captioning, text generation, and text-to-speech, enabling learners to improve vocabulary and sentence formulation by recognizing everyday objects. The user study evaluates AIlingo through the User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ) and semi-structured interviews, providing insights for further development efforts.