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To examine how EFL high school students of varying proficiency levels engage with an AI writing chatbot for home practice, and to evaluate its impact on their writing performance and perceptions.

January 10, 2025Journal of Educational Computing Research

An AI Chatbot for EFL Writing: Students’ Usage Tendencies, Writing Performance, and Perceptions

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TDThi-Ngoc-Anh DuongNational Taiwan University of Science and Technology HCHsiu‐Ling ChenNational Taiwan University of Science and Technology

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Mixed-methods study reveals AI chatbot assistance enhances writing performance across different proficiency levels in high school EFL students, indicating strong potential for automated tutoring.

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To examine how EFL high school students of varying proficiency levels engage with an AI writing chatbot for home practice, and to evaluate its impact on their writing performance and perceptions.
Assessed 47 high school EFL students in Northern Vietnam, categorized into higher and lower proficiency groups.
Used a mixed-methods design incorporating chat logs, timed-writing tests, questionnaires, and semi-structured interviews to evaluate the Writing Assistant Bot (WAB).
Lower-proficiency learners primarily used the chatbot during the planning stage for vocabulary and brainstorming, while higher-proficiency learners mainly engaged during the translating stage to elaborate and refine expressions.
Chatbot engagement significantly improved writing performance across content, organization, vocabulary, language use, and mechanics for both proficiency groups, with participants reporting high usability.

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Duong et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d893e305ee2ba81dbefcbd https://doi.org/10.1177/07356331241312363

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Mixed-methods study reveals AI chatbot assistance enhances writing performance across different proficiency levels in high school EFL students, indicating strong potential for automated tutoring.

An AI Chatbot for EFL Writing: Students’ Usage Tendencies, Writing Performance, and Perceptions

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