Research Article

AI in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Pedagogical Overview of Automated Writing Assistance Tools

Table 2

The themes of the reviewed papers and the studies related to each theme.

Main themesSubthemesThe reviewed studies

Current and emerging AI-powered writing assistance technologiesAutomated writing evaluationBurstein et al. [14]; Ortega [15]; Bridgeman and Ramineni [16]; Ranalli et al. [17]; Godwin-Jones [18]; Hibert [19]Hussein et al. [20]; Warschauer et al. [21]; Saricaoglu [22]; Link et al. [23]; Peng et al. [24]; Palermo and Wilson [25]Nunes et al. [26]; Camacho et al. [27]; Godwin-Jones [28]; Huang and Wilson [29]; Ranalli [30]
Automated writing corrective feedback (AWCF) tools (text editors supplying synchronous feedback)Ellis [31]; Dembsey [32]; Arroyo and Yilmaz [33]; Zheng and Yu [34]; Ranalli [1]Nova [35]; Conijn et al. [36]; O’Neill and Russell [37]; Ghufron [38]; Huang et al. [39]; John and Woll [40]; O’Neill and Russell [41]; Dale and Viethen [4]Dodigovic and Tovmasyan [42]; Zomer and Frankenberg-Garcia [43]; Dizon and Gayed [44]; Ranalli and Yamashita [3]
AI-enabled machine translationO’Neill [45]; Lewis-Kraus [46]; Ellis [31]; Godwin-Jones [47]; Crossley [48]; O’Neill [45]; Fredholm [49]Godwin-Jones [50]; Hussein et al. [20]; Enriquez Raiído and Saínchez-Torrón [51]; Lee [52]; Vinall and Hellmich [53]; Hellmich and Vinall [7]; Dale and Viethen [4]Urlaub and Dessein [54]; Zhang and Torres-Hostench [55]; Klekovkina and Denié-Higney [56]; Jolley and Maimone [57]; Ryu et al. [58]; Vinall and Hellmich [10]; Pellet and Myers [9]
Automatic text generationRuder [59]; Dale [60]; Floridi and Chiriatti [61]; Ferrone and Zanzotto [62]; Dale [63]Dale and Viethen [4]; Dizon and Gayed [44]; Eaton et al. [5]; Godwin-Jones [47]; Zhang and Li [64]Schmalz and Brutti [65]; Anson [66]; Anson and Straume [67]

Recommendations by scholars for researchers and educatorsClassroom integration (Coexistence)Jiang et al. [68]; John and Woll [40]; Koltovskaia [2]; Woodworth and Barkaoui [69]; Hellmich and Vinall [7]Hellmich and Vinall [7]; Kessler [70]; Ling et al. [71]; Ranalli [30]; Li [72]Li [72]; Knowles [73]; Pellet and Myers [9]; Sumakul et al. [74]; Fyfe [75]
Adopting ecological perspectivesLarsen-Freeman [76]; Zhang and Hyland [77]; Hockly [78]; Patout and Cordy [79]; Jiang et al. [68]; Koltovskaia [2]; Link et al. [23]Lee [52]; Woodworth and Barkaoui [69]; Zhang [80]; Hellmich and Vinall [7]; Nunes et al. [26]; Ranalli [30]Huang and Wilson [29]; Li [72]; Lieshout and Cardoso [81]; Pellet and Myers [9]; Sun and Fan [82]