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Publication Date: 2024
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The Impact of Large Language Models on University Students' Literacy Development: A Dialogue with Lea and Street's Academic Literacies Framework
Higher Education Research and Development, v43 n7 p1465-1478 2024
Large Language Models have already begun to affect the higher education landscape. However, there is currently a lack of work investigating how these models interface -- and possibly interfere -- with literacy development. Considering literacy is critical because student learning is only made possible through language. This paper considers implications for university students' literacy development by drawing on Lea and Street's academic literacies framework. I argue that LLMs pose different levels of risk for students' development of each aspect of literacy contained within the framework: study skills are least at risk, academic socialisation is most at risk, and academic literacies represent an intermediate risk. Implications for instructors include dedicated instructional time and support for students to engage with reading and writing practices without LLM support before they begin to incorporate them into their literacies repertoire. If students rely too heavily on LLMs initially, there is a danger they will not undergo the enculturation and cognitive development necessary for success at university.
Descriptors: Academic Language, Computational Linguistics, Guidelines, Risk, Study Skills, Literacy Education, Socialization, Academic Achievement, Artificial Intelligence, Higher Education, Technology Uses in Education, Reading Processes, Writing Processes, Taxonomy, Teaching Methods, Interference (Learning)
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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