The Impact of AI Models on Students' Writing Competence and Writing Motivation in the Context of Learning German as a Foreign Language in India

Abstract

The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education may encourage instructors to rethink their teaching methodologies. However, due to the rapid advances in technology, the involvement of digital agencies in education has increased manifold. This paper seeks to discuss the implications of such agencies for academic writing in German. Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) is an artificial intelligence-generated text (AI-generated content) model that is based on artificial intelligence (AI). This paper uses a case study to explore the impact of ChatGPT on students' writing competence and writing motivation in the context of learning German as a foreign language in India. The results of this case study indicate that two factors become most challenging for Academic Writing in a Foreign Language (FL): "Limited Experience" and "Personal Writing Style". The findings of this study confirm the prevalence of cross-cultural rhetorical patterns and reinforce the importance of the setting of writing. The paper also analyses the role of manual human agencies in teaching as well as learning Academic Writing in foreign languages.