| Abstrakt: |
This paper aimed to examine the benefits and drawbacks of AI-based summarizing and paraphrasing tools that were employed in a CLIL academic writing course on intercultural communication at a national Japanese university. Students summarized an internet article of their choice that had to include indirect citations by paraphrasing the author's ideas. First, they did this without the support of AI-based tools. On their second and third attempt, they used the AI-based summarizing and paraphrasing tools Quillbot and SpinBot respectively. A one-way ANOVA was conducted to evaluate the three summaries for grammar, readability and plagiarism. Results showed that although the AI-based tools can improve grammar, they have limited capability in improving readability and preventing plagiarism. A survey on student perceptions of the tools also highlighted the drawbacks of the software and that dependence on such tools to produce academic writing content needs to be treated with caution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
