Investigating students’ cognitive processes in generative AI-assisted digital multimodal composing and traditional writing

Recently, generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots such as ChatGPT and Bing Chat have garnered increasing attention on a global scale. Previous studies have focused mostly on the influence of generative AI on writing while few researchers have investigated how generative AI can facilitate students' multimodal writing process. To fill in this gap, we explored the generative AI-assisted composing processes of two groups of English as a foreign language (EFL) writers over two weeks in this qualitative study. One group completed a multimodal PowerPoint (PPT) project, and the other group completed a traditional argumentative essay project. Our data consist of students’ screen recordings with…

• UO
  University of Auckland
• MO
  Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
• CS
  China Scholarship Council

  Award: 202206090014