The Role of Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Teaching and Learning of English as Foreign Language: An Empirical Study of GenAI-Based Feedback in Secondary English Writing

Abstract

This study is an evaluation of the effect of GenAI-based feedback on English writing performance of secondary school students as English-as-foreign-language (EFL) learners, based on experimental data from 201 seventh graders from four classes at J Middle School in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. Using the GenAI software “Doubao,” which is built on the Skylark model, as the experimental platform, the researchers compared the English writing scores of the experimental group (trained with GenAI-based feedback) and the control group (trained with teacher feedback) across four writing assignments.