ERIC Number: EJ1487016
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Oct
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-0034-0553
EISSN: EISSN-1936-2722
Available Date: 2025-08-25
Writing "Right" with Multilingual Learners: Translanguaging, Hegemonic Writing Instruction, and the Possibility of Not
Victoria K. Henry1; Adrienne Vitullo1; Dorsa I. Fahami1; Phillip Seyfried1; María Paula Ghiso1
Reading Research Quarterly, v60 n4 e70038 2025
Given the popularization of artificial intelligence in education, this study explores this technology's effects on emergent bilinguals' writing and revision. Large Language Models have become prevalent as supports for teachers and students in revising. Yet, research has not examined the intricacies of using these tools with emergent bilinguals. This study uses a LLM (ChatGPT4o) to assess barriers and affordances, and their role in the cultural reproduction of language instruction in schools. Through revising five published bilingual children's books, this study employs different prompting styles as a heuristic for traditional revision processes. Employing a critical content analysis of the LLM's revisions and taking up translanguaging and decolonial lenses, several themes are explored: standardizing translanguaging, standardizing structure, and homogenizing culture. Further, the paper discusses how the LLM can reify deficit-based framings, calling for the examination of technology's capabilities and barriers, and how teachers and students can (dis)engage for liberation.
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Artificial Intelligence, Bilingual Students, Computer Uses in Education, Revision (Written Composition), Prompting, Heuristics, Code Switching (Language), Cultural Influences, Barriers, Affordances
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA

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