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Dan Zhao – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the education landscape and has been widely applied to language teaching and learning. This study investigates the transformative potential of AI-driven Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools in enhancing writing proficiency, focusing on language precision, content summarization, and creative writing…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Writing Skills, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Kai Guo; Deliang Wang – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
ChatGPT, the newest pre-trained large language model, has recently attracted unprecedented worldwide attention. Its exceptional performance in understanding human language and completing a variety of tasks in a conversational way has led to heated discussions about its implications for and use in education. This exploratory study represents one of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), English (Second Language), Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing
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Osama Koraishi – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
This study conducts a comprehensive quantitative evaluation of OpenAI's language model, ChatGPT 4, for grading Task 2 writing of the IELTS exam. The objective is to assess the alignment between ChatGPT's grading and that of official human raters. The analysis encompassed a multifaceted approach, including a comparison of means and reliability…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Artificial Intelligence
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Waad Alsaweed; Saad Aljebreen – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
Artificial intelligence revolution becomes a trend in most aspects of life. ChatGPT, an AI chatbot, has impacted various domains, including education and language learning. Enhancing writing abilities of ESL learners requires frequent writing practice and feedback, which ChatGPT can easily provide. However, ChatGPT's accuracy in identifying and…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Writing Instruction, Grammar, Morphemes
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Uzun, Kutay; Ulum, Ömer Gökhan – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2022
This study aimed to utilize sentiment and sentence similarity analyses, two Natural Language Processing techniques, to see if and how well they could predict L2 Writing Performance in integrated and independent task conditions. The data sources were an integrated L2 writing corpus of 185 literary analysis essays and an independent L2 writing…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition)
Shabnam Behzad – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Second language learners constitute a significant and expanding portion of the global population and there is a growing demand for tools that facilitate language learning and instruction across various levels and in different countries. The development of large language models (LLMs) has brought about a significant impact on the domains of natural…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning
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Hwang, Haerim; Kim, Hyunwoo – Applied Linguistics, 2023
One of the important components in second language (L2) development is to produce clause-level units of form-meaning pairings or argument structure constructions. Based on the usage-based constructionist approach that language development entails an ability to use more diverse, more complex, and less frequent constructions, this study tested…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Predictor Variables
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Xiaoling Bai; Nur Rasyidah Mohd Nordin – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
A perfect writing skill has been deemed instrumental to achieving competence in EFL, yet it is considered one of the most impressive learning domains. This study investigates the impact of human-AI collaborative feedback on the writing proficiency of EFL students. It examines key teaching domains, including the teaching environment, teacher…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Feedback (Response), Evaluators, Writing Skills
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Ranalli, Jim; Yamashita, Taichi – Language Learning & Technology, 2022
To the extent automated written corrective feedback (AWCF) tools such as Grammarly are based on sophisticated error-correction technologies, such as machine-learning techniques, they have the potential to find and correct more common L2 error types than simpler spelling and grammar checkers such as the one included in Microsoft Word (technically…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Computer Software, Second Language Learning
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Miranty, Delsa; Widiati, Utami – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2021
Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE) has been considered a potential pedagogical technique that exploits technology to assist the students' writing. However, little attention has been devoted to examining students' perceptions of Grammarly use in higher education context. This paper aims to obtain information regarding the writing process and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Writing (Composition), Student Attitudes
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Sari, Elif; Han, Turgay – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2021
Providing both effective feedback applications and reliable assessment practices are two central issues in ESL/EFL writing instruction contexts. Giving individual feedback is very difficult in crowded classes as it requires a great amount of time and effort for instructors. Moreover, instructors likely employ inconsistent assessment procedures,…
Descriptors: Automation, Writing Evaluation, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing
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Goh, Tiong-Thye; Sun, Hui; Yang, Bing – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2020
This study investigates the extent to which microfeatures -- such as basic text features, readability, cohesion, and lexical diversity based on specific word lists -- affect Chinese EFL writing quality. Data analysis was conducted using natural language processing, correlation analysis and stepwise multiple regression analysis on a corpus of 268…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Chukharev-Hudilainen, Evgeny; Saricaoglu, Aysel – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
Expressing causal relations plays a central role in academic writing. While it is important that writing instructors assess and provide feedback on learners' causal discourse, it could be a very time-consuming task. In this respect, automated writing evaluation (AWE) tools may be helpful. However, to date, there have been no AWE tools capable of…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Feedback (Response), Undergraduate Students, Accuracy
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Enright, Mary K.; Quinlan, Thomas – Language Testing, 2010
E-rater[R] is an automated essay scoring system that uses natural language processing techniques to extract features from essays and to model statistically human holistic ratings. Educational Testing Service has investigated the use of e-rater, in conjunction with human ratings, to score one of the two writing tasks on the TOEFL-iBT[R] writing…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Scoring, Essays, Language Processing