Students’ appraisals post-ChatGPT use: Students’ narrative after using ChatGPT for writing

ABSTRACT

This study aims to explore the students’ experience with ChatGPT in providing scaffolding for writing essays. It also discloses students’ appraisals of utilising ChatGPT. Drawing upon data from semi-structured interviews, this study involved 12 students learning English as a Foreign Language who utilised ChatGPT in academic writing classes. The findings revealed that students derived advantages from using ChatGPT for translation, writing accuracy, writing efficiency, idea generation, and practical use. This study also reveals students’ criticism in terms of inaccurate information generated as well as the possibility of students committing academic dishonesty when using ChatGPT. This study indicates that although students use ChatGPT to help them write their essays, they have the awareness to fact-check the information to avoid committing academic dishonesty.

KEYWORDS:

• Artificial intelligence
• ChatGPT
• technology-enhanced writing
• students’ perception on ChatGPT, essay writing

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Funding

This research is funded by Lembaga Pengelola Dana Pendidikan (LPDP/ Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education) under the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia and Beasiswa Pendidikan Indonesia (BPI) Puslapdik Kemdikbudristek of the Republic of Indonesia.

Notes on contributors

Arif Nugroho

Arif Nugroho is an assistant professor at the English Department of UIN Raden Mas Said Surakarta Indonesia. Currently, he is a Ph.D student at Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta Indonesia. His research interests include technology in English language teaching, pragmatics, and teaching English for specific purposes.

Erna Andriyanti

Erna Andriyanti is a professor at the Department of Language Education Science of Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta Indonesia. Her research includes linguistics in English language teaching and teacher identity.

Pratomo Widodo

Pratomo Widodo is a professor at the Department of Language Education Science of Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta Indonesia. His areas of research include applied linguistics and linguistics in language teaching.

Ira Mutiaraningrum

Ira Mutiaraningrum is an English language lecturer at the State Polytechnic of Sambas, Indonesia. She is currently pursuing her doctorate at the State University of Semarang, Indonesia. She is interested in mobile-assisted language learning and digital multimodal composing.