ace'AI-Learner Partnership': Psychological mechanisms and developmental trajectories of EFL learners' writing agency in GenAI-assisted courses
This study explores how EFL learners construct, negotiate, and develop writing agency through engagement with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in second language writing courses. GenAI is conceptualized as a cultural mediational means within an integrated sociocultural and positive psychological framework. Eleven Chinese EFL university students were followed over a 16-week semester as they completed multiple academic writing tasks with GenAI support. Drawing on a qualitative multi-method design, data w…
Over a 16-week course, the eleven students moved from reliance on AI output toward selective, task-based use and a more agentic techno-authorial identity, with strengthened writing-specific psychological capital.
The study followed only eleven Chinese EFL university students using a qualitative design, which limits how far the observed phases can be generalized to other learners or settings.
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- Peer-reviewedActa Psychologica2026-10-16
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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-1660, v1: “'AI-Learner Partnership': Psychological mechanisms and developmental trajectories of EFL learners' writing agency in GenAI-assisted courses.” Truvace, 2026-10-17. /record/TRV-2026-1660 (accessed at citation time). sha256 dcf4c0aae221061c…
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