Toshiko Oda (Tokyo Keizai Univresity, Japan)
Abstract
Many teachers are wondering whether AI can be a learning tool or a cheating tool for students. I will report on the use of generative AI in English writing activities and highlight future challenges. During the 2024 academic year, AI-assisted writing activities were conducted in an English course with 10 non-English major university students in Japan. The students initially wrote an English essay on their own, then modified their essays using generative AI. In doing so, students were advised to improve their English essays within the level of their i+1 (Krashen, 1982), ensuring their essays were better than their original versions but still reproducible by them. Finally, they took a paper-and-pencil writing test in class to see if they could reproduce the essays. The results were reasonably good. Nevertheless, many issues remain to promote healthy and productive use of generative AI among university students.
Research Paper (In person; 25 minutes)
Technology / Online Learning / AI / CALL / MALL
Primarily of interest to teachers of university students
About the Presenter
Toshiko Oda is an associate professor of English and linguistics at Tokyo Keizai University. She is interested in the use of machine translation and generative AI as English learning tools for university students. She is the editor of English Education and Machine Translation: New Approaches and Practices by Yamada et al. (2023), published by Kinseido, Tokyo.
