The need for critical digital literacies in generative AI-mediated L2 writing

This article asserts that the use of generative AI (GenAI) technologies for L2 writing needs to involve critical digital literacies. Drawing on the initial insights from a case study exploring the GenAI practices of secondary school students in Canada, this paper highlights emergent issues surrounding the dispositions of these learners towards these tools, the designs of platforms, and the material differences in the way these tools generate responses and encourage specific practices. Recognizing the inequalities that circumscribe the use of these technologies, this paper proposes materiality , indexicality , and ideology as key constructs that help develop an understanding of critical digital literacies…