Huazhi Xiao

Huazhi Xiao

August 31, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI), College English writing teaching, Application impact, Cognitive ability, Educational ecosystem.

To explore the application of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in college English writing teaching and its impact on students' writing abilities, a questionnaire survey was conducted among students from multiple universities. The results show that AI provides significant assistance in basic functions such as grammar checking, vocabulary replacement, and text polishing, but it still needs improvement in semantic understanding and professional context adaptability. The degree of students' awareness of AI is closely related to their frequency of use, initiative, and perception of writing ability improvement. The frequency of teachers' guidance also has a positive impact on students' behavior of using AI and their ability improvement. Students are concerned that over-reliance on AI may affect their own ability development and suggest improving the professionalism and accuracy of AI-generated content. Therefore, it is necessary to enhance students' cognitive ability of AI and optimize the professional adaptability of AI tools. Teachers should transform into cognitive coaches and build a three-dimensional integrated educational ecosystem of "technology-ethics-ability" to promote the rational application of AI technology in English writing teaching.

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