Original title: Impact of ChatGPT on ESL students’ academic writing skills: a mixed methods intervention study
The study looked at undergraduate students learning English as a second language. They used ChatGPT to get feedback while working on academic writing. The researchers used three tests and three group discussions to study writing and student views. They found a significant positive impact on writing skills, and students’ views were overwhelmingly positive.
Imagine writing a school essay and asking someone to read a draft before you hand it in. It can be hard to improve if you do not know what to fix, especially when a teacher has many students to help. In this paper, ChatGPT is the reader giving feedback, and the students’ writing tests and group discussions show how students’ work and views changed.
Writing classes can be large, making it hard for every student to get useful feedback. The study suggests that, with proper training, ChatGPT can support feedback in those classes; students also reported positive experiences.
The abstract does not give the size or length of the intervention, details of how students were trained, or the specific writing skills that improved. It says future research could examine different writing genres and smaller aspects of writing, so the findings do not establish how ChatGPT affects each one.
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Impact of ChatGPT on ESL students’ academic writing skills: a mixed methods intervention study — Santosh Kumar Mahapatra — Smart Learning Environments — doi:10.1186/s40561-024-00295-9
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