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Abstract
Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and the release of ChatGPT, a Large Language Model (LLM) or chatbot, have left researchers and practitioners scrambling to consider how these tools fit into L2 writing instruction and how to design policies and practices around their use. Furthermore, as texts generated from these tools potentially get closer to sounding human, the following question arises: How do writers represent their identities in writing and why does it matter? The concept of “voice” in writing has been used to describe the presence of the authors’ identities in text. In this paper, we define voice in writing, both in human composed texts and AI written/assisted texts. We argue that voice is an important theoretical construct to consider in conversations about AI and its use in L2 writing instruction.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Second Language Writing is devoted to publishing theoretically grounded reports of research and discussions that represent a significant contribution to current understandings of central issues in second and foreign language writing and writing instruction. Some areas of interest are personal characteristics and attitudes of L2 writers, L2 writers'' composing processes, features of L2 writers'' texts, readers'' responses to L2 writing, assessment/evaluation of L2 writing, contexts (cultural, social, political, institutional) for L2 writing, and any other topic clearly relevant to L2 writing theory, research, or instruction.