Innovation in Language Learning

This research discusses the integration of ChatGPT and peer noticing to enhance writing skills. Students wrote four essays and were tasked with utilizing ChatGPT-3 to correct any errors in their writing. Additionally, they engaged in peer noticing of errors to help them remember more of their errors. To determine whether learning was acquired or missed, individualized tests were administered, requiring students to correct at least five errors flagged by ChatGPT in all of their essays. Another method used was to count all correctly written sentences by those who completed all writing activities. Results show that while students demonstrated confidence in forming verbs in the past tense, they struggled with remembering multi-word items, understanding comma rules—especially for compound sentences—and constructing complex sentences. There was no significant difference in writing improvement, likely due to the missed learning opportunities provided by ChatGPT. This research underscores the critical need for instruction from language teachers, as second/foreign language students may not be ready to fully rely on generative intelligence technologies.

Keywords: ChatGPT-3, second language writing, peer noticing, writing errors, multi-word items