TY - JOUR

T1 - ChatGPT and Its Genre Competence

T2 - An Exploratory Study

AU - Brommer, Sarah

AU - Frick, Karina

AU - Bursch, Adriana

AU - Rodrigues Crespo, Marina

AU - Schwerdtfeger, Laura Katrin

N1 - Special Issue: Education in the Digital World

PY - 2024

Y1 - 2024

N2 - Being able to reciprocate and produce different kinds of texts is a key quality and a core professional competence. Therefore, genre competence is fundamental in not only educational and academic contexts but also professional environments. This paper addresses the extent to which text-generating AI tools could support the development of genre competence and how suitable they are as a tool for genre-based writing didactics. To answer this, it is necessary to examine whether AI tools, such as ChatGPT, are competent in terms of text genres. To do this, the research explores whether ChatGPT is capable of producing and revising genre-specific texts or identifying and analyzing genre-specific patterns and whether it produces different outputs in terms of genre. To examine these questions, we have conducted a pilot study that includes several different text types and several areas of application (generating, revising, summarizing, classifying, and analyzing). The paper’s results relate to three aspects of “Education in the Digital World”: a) competencies, b) possible changes to educational and learning processes using AI tools, and c) appropriate tools for education in general.

AB - Being able to reciprocate and produce different kinds of texts is a key quality and a core professional competence. Therefore, genre competence is fundamental in not only educational and academic contexts but also professional environments. This paper addresses the extent to which text-generating AI tools could support the development of genre competence and how suitable they are as a tool for genre-based writing didactics. To answer this, it is necessary to examine whether AI tools, such as ChatGPT, are competent in terms of text genres. To do this, the research explores whether ChatGPT is capable of producing and revising genre-specific texts or identifying and analyzing genre-specific patterns and whether it produces different outputs in terms of genre. To examine these questions, we have conducted a pilot study that includes several different text types and several areas of application (generating, revising, summarizing, classifying, and analyzing). The paper’s results relate to three aspects of “Education in the Digital World”: a) competencies, b) possible changes to educational and learning processes using AI tools, and c) appropriate tools for education in general.

KW - Language Studies

KW - text type

KW - genre competence

KW - AI

KW - ChatGPT

KW - writing didactics

KW - text type

KW - text type competence

KW - AI

KW - ChatGPT

KW - writing didactice

UR - https://ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wjds/article/view/4_4_6

U2 - 10.34669/wi.wjds/4.4.6

DO - 10.34669/wi.wjds/4.4.6

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 4

JO - Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society

JF - Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society

SN - 2748-5625

IS - 4

M1 - 4.4.6

ER -