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Kelsey Hammond; Chelsey Barber – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
A mastery-based learning model has limited value in secondary English classrooms, particularly as it relates to writing instruction. Kelsey Hammond and Chelsey Barber argue against the focus on standardized benchmarks that are tied to mastery-based models in favor of an approach to writing that is explorative, personal, and imaginative. The rise…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Secondary Education, Writing Instruction, Artificial Intelligence
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Katt Blackwell-Starnes – Thresholds in Education, 2025
This paper examines the use of ChatGPT as an educational tool to teach writing and revision in a first-semester writing course in Fall 2023 at a regional university. The course used ChatGPT as a classroom model to show students how to ethically use generative AI as part of their writing and revision process. One-on-one conferences about student…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Man Machine Systems, Natural Language Processing, Writing Instruction
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Qian Du; Tamara Tate – CATESOL Journal, 2024
ChatGPT has been at the center of media coverage since its public release at the end of 2022. Given ChatGPT's capacity for generating human-like text on a wide range of subjects, it is not surprising that educators, especially those who teach writing, have raised concerns regarding the implications of generative AI tools on issues of plagiarism…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Technology Uses in Education, Plagiarism
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McKnight, Lucinda – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2021
With artificial intelligence (AI) now producing human-quality text in seconds via natural language generation, urgent questions arise about the nature and purpose of the teaching of writing in English. Humans have already been co-composing with digital tools for decades, in the form of spelling and grammar checkers built into word processing…
Descriptors: Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
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Kerins, John; Ramsay, Allan – ReCALL, 2012
This paper reports on the development of a prototype tool which shows how learners can be helped to reflect upon the accuracy of their writing. Analysis of samples of freely written texts by intermediate and advanced learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) showed evidence of weakness in the use of tense and aspect. Computational discourse…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction, Semantics
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Harbusch, Karin; Itsova, Gergana; Koch, Ulrich; Kuhner, Christine – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2008
We built an NLP system implementing a "virtual writing conference" for elementary-school children, with German as the target language. Currently, state-of-the-art computer support for writing tasks is restricted to multiple-choice questions or quizzes because automatic parsing of the often ambiguous and fragmentary texts produced by pupils…
Descriptors: Essays, Tests, Writing Instruction, Natural Language Processing