Teaching or Cheating : The Dark Side of ChatGPT as a Learning Companion for Beginner Chinese Students
Rovira-Esteva, Sara (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Additional title:	教学辅助还是误导 : ChatGPT 在中文初学者学习中的潜在风险
Date:	2025
Description:	33 pàg.
Abstract:	Since its introduction in late 2022, ChatGPT has garnered significant interest among foreign language educators, who have explored its potential to enhance teaching and learning. This exploratory study examines the guided use of GenAI for two written production activities conducted by first-year university students learning Chinese. The research addresses two key questions: (1) whether the system's responses are reliable and of pedagogical quality, and (2) how students interact with the chatbot to seek guidance. The study had four phases: designing structured activities with detailed instructions and evaluation rubrics, annotating and categorizing student prompts, carrying out content analysis of the system's output, and examining student feedback collected through an anonymous survey. The results indicate that students' varying levels of Chinese proficiency and AI literacy had a substantial impact on their outcomes. While ChatGPT occasionally provided high-quality responses, its output was inconsistent, often including random errors or nonsensical results in response to similar prompts. This study offers an innovative perspective by qualitatively analyzing students' prompts and the system's output or feedback from an educator's standpoint. The findings highlight the risks associated with using ChatGPT in uncontrolled settings, where its inconsistent performance combined with students limited critical thinking skills in detecting errors pose significant challenges. Ultimately, the study emphasizes the need for cautious integration of generative AI in education. This problem can be addressed by fine-tuning the system to improve the quality of its feedback and training students to help them develop their AI literacy.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	ChatGPT ; AI-student interaction ; TCFL ; CSL ; AI literacy
Published in:	Journal of Technology and Chinese Language Teaching, Vol. 16 Núm. 1 (2025) , p. 52-84, ISSN 1949-260X

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