How do pre-service language teachers perceive generative AIs’ affordance?:A case of ChatGPT

IF 4.9 1区文学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

System Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI:10.1016/j.system.2025.103606

Yuko Goto Butler, Shiyu Jiang

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Abstract

As generative artificial intelligence (AI), such as ChatGPT, becomes prevalent, it presents various ethical and practical challenges for schools. This study explores how students assess ChatGPT's affordances and limitations in academic writing and how these assessments relate to their writing performance, judged by themselves and the course instructor. The study uniquely focuses on international pre-service teachers in a Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages program in the United States (N = 38), who may use generative AIs in their teaching and studies. The participants completed tasks in an applied linguistics class, including writing essays with and without ChatGPT on the same topic and comparing the two essays. Grounded in the Theory of Affordance, the students' evaluations were coded and analyzed with Epistemic Network Analysis. Results showed that students viewed ChatGPT's affordances and limitations differently according to their writing profiles. Those with lower writing scores or confidence were less critical of ChatGPT, highlighting its merits in language-related elements such as grammatical accuracy and lexical choice. The study suggests the importance of assisting future language teachers in fostering accurate knowledge of AI's affordances and developing balanced views towards AI through professional development, while considering individual differences in their needs and abilities.

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职前语言教师如何感知生成性人工智能的功能？：一个ChatGPT的案例

随着ChatGPT等生成式人工智能（AI）的普及，它给学校带来了各种伦理和实践挑战。本研究探讨了学生如何评估ChatGPT在学术写作中的优点和局限性，以及这些评估如何与他们的写作表现联系起来，由他们自己和课程教师来判断。这项研究独特地关注了美国向其他语言的人教授英语项目的国际职前教师（N = 38），他们可能在教学和研究中使用生成式人工智能。参与者在应用语言学课上完成了任务，包括用和不用ChatGPT就同一主题写文章，并比较两篇文章。以能力提供理论为基础，对学生的评价进行编码和认知网络分析。结果表明，根据学生的写作情况，他们对ChatGPT的优点和局限性有不同的看法。那些写作分数或自信心较低的人对ChatGPT不那么挑剔，他们强调了它在语法准确性和词汇选择等语言相关元素上的优点。该研究表明，在考虑个体需求和能力差异的同时，帮助未来的语言教师培养对人工智能能力的准确认识，并通过专业发展形成对人工智能的平衡观点，是非常重要的。

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来源期刊

System Multiple-

CiteScore

8.80

自引率

8.30%

发文量

202

审稿时长

64 days

期刊介绍： This international journal is devoted to the applications of educational technology and applied linguistics to problems of foreign language teaching and learning. Attention is paid to all languages and to problems associated with the study and teaching of English as a second or foreign language. The journal serves as a vehicle of expression for colleagues in developing countries. System prefers its contributors to provide articles which have a sound theoretical base with a visible practical application which can be generalized. The review section may take up works of a more theoretical nature to broaden the background.