Exploring Students' Generative AI-Assisted Writing Processes: Perceptions and Experiences from Native and Nonnative English Speakers
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| Title: | Exploring Students' Generative AI-Assisted Writing Processes: Perceptions and Experiences from Native and Nonnative English Speakers |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Chaoran Wang (ORCID |
| Source: | Technology, Knowledge and Learning. 2025 30(3):1825-1846. |
| Availability: | Springer. Available from: Springer Nature. One New York Plaza, Suite 4600, New York, NY 10004. Tel: 800-777-4643; Tel: 212-460-1500; Fax: 212-460-1700; e-mail: customerservice@springernature.com; Web site: https://link.springer.com/ |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 22 |
| Publication Date: | 2025 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Education Level: | Higher Education Postsecondary Education |
| Descriptors: | Artificial Intelligence, Computer Uses in Education, Writing (Composition), Writing Processes, Student Attitudes, Technology Integration, Writing Attitudes, Computer Attitudes, Freshman Composition, College Freshmen, Native Speakers, Non English Speaking, Brainstorming, Persuasive Discourse, Text Structure, Rhetoric, Syntax, Pronunciation, Grammar, Ethics, Critical Literacy, Digital Literacy |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10758-024-09744-3 |
| ISSN: | 2211-1662 2211-1670 |
| Abstract: | Generative artificial intelligence (AI) can create sophisticated textual and multimodal content readily available to students. Writing intensive courses and disciplines that use writing as a major form of assessment are significantly impacted by advancements in generative AI, as the technology has the potential to revolutionize how students write and how they perceive writing as a fundamental literacy skill. However, educators are still at the beginning stage of understanding students' integration of generative AI in their actual writing process. This study addresses the urgent need to uncover how students engage with ChatGPT throughout different components of their writing processes and their perceptions of the opportunities and challenges of generative AI. Adopting a phenomenological research design, the study explored the writing practices of six students, including both native and nonnative English speakers, in a first-year writing class at a higher education institution in the US. Thematic analysis of students' written products, self-reflections, and interviews suggests that students utilized ChatGPT for brainstorming and organizing ideas as well as assisting with both global (e.g., argument, structure, coherence) and local issues of writing (e.g., syntax, diction, grammar), while they also had various ethical and practical concerns about the use of ChatGPT. The study brought to front two dilemmas encountered by students in their generative AI-assisted writing: (1) the challenging balance between incorporating AI to enhance writing and maintaining their authentic voice, and (2) the dilemma of weighing the potential loss of learning experiences against the emergence of new learning opportunities accompanying AI integration. These dilemmas highlight the need to rethink learning in an increasingly AI-mediated educational context, emphasizing the importance of fostering students' critical AI literacy to promote their authorial voice and learning in AI-human collaboration. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2025 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1482525 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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