Developing Design Principles to Strategically Integrate ChatGPT into EFL Writing through an Activity Theory Perspective

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Abstract

This study explores how ChatGPT can be strategically integrated into writing and conceptualises the strategical integration as the resolution of contradictions through Activity Theory. Employing a design-based approach, we developed an intervention with design principles to guide ChatGPT-assisted writing through three cycles of implementation and revision. In each cycle, screen recordings of the writing process, semi-structured interviews on the intervention and AT framework, and stimulated-recall interviews on contradictions and solution strategies were collected and analysed using Reflexive Thematic Analysis. Finally, underpinned by the AT framework, four design principles, each consisting of two to three strategies, have emerged from the process of resolving ChatGPT-related contradictions in the AT framework, offering implications for the strategical integration of ChatGPT into EFL writing.

Authors

• YUNAN ZHANG, University of Hong Kong

• Yongcan Liu, University of Cambridge