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Description
Tools of generative AI such as ChatGPT can provide immediate feedback on students’ writing. However, many EFL learners in Vietnam still struggle to move beyond superficial, grammar-based revisions during the revision process. This study seeks to fill this gap by investigating how teacher-led prompting strategies can help Grade 9 students shift from simply linguistic accuracy to deeper discourse-level improvements. Employing a one-group pretest-posttest design with 32 secondary students, the research introduced a structured prompting framework designed to facilitate more intentional interactions with AI. Quantitative analysis using paired-samples t-tests revealed not only a gain in the overall score but also a significant change in students’ treatment of paragraph organization and coherence after a series of classroom interventions. More importantly, qualitative results suggest that the scaffolding of teachers empowered the learners to shift from passive recipients of AI suggestions to critical evaluators of machine-generated content. These results underscore a vital pedagogical shift: the necessity of balancing AI efficiency with teacher agency in order to foster genuine meaning-level writing development in the contemporary EFL classroom.
Keywords: ChatGPT, AI-assisted writing, teacher-guided prompting, writing revision, teacher agency, pedagogical scaffolding, secondary EFL learners, discourse-level improvement.
Biography
My full name is Huynh Van Ly. I am an English teacher with over 25 years of teaching experience in public schools in Vietnam. Currently, I hold a master's degree in English language teaching methodology. My research focuses on teaching writing, classroom-based innovation, and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL). This research demonstrates my commitment to connecting innovative technologies with effective teaching practices to improve English writing skills among Vietnamese middle school students.
| Affiliate type | Vietnamese public school |
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