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20222026
most citedExploring EFL students' prompt engineering in human-AI story writing: an Activity Theory perspective

41 citations · 115 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CL2026

Why Retrieval-Augmented Generation Fails: A Graph Perspective

Kai Guo, Xinnan Dai, Zhibo Zhang +5

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a powerful and widely used approach for improving large language models by grounding generation in retrieved evidence. However, RAG…

cs.CL2026

Exploring how EFL students talk to and through AI to develop texts

David James Woo, Yangyang Yu, Yilin Huang +3

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) introduces new considerations for English as a foreign language (EFL) writing pedagogy. This study explores how students talk to and through…

cs.CY2025★ 2 cited

A vibe coding learning design to enhance EFL students' talking to, through, and about AI

David James Woo, Kai Guo, Yangyang Yu

This innovative practice article reports on the piloting of vibe coding (using natural language to create software applications with AI) for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) edu…

cs.CL2025

Product vs. Process: Exploring EFL Students' Editing of AI-Generated Text for Expository Writing

David James Woo, Yangyang Yu, Kai Guo +2

Text generated by artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots is increasingly used in English as a foreign language (EFL) writing contexts, yet its impact on students' expository writing…

cs.CY2025

Exploring EFL Secondary Students' AI-generated Text Editing While Composition Writing

David James Woo, Yangyang Yu, Kai Guo

Generative Artificial Intelligence is transforming how English as a foreign language students write. Still, little is known about how students manipulate text generated by generati…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

Approaching the Limits to EFL Writing Enhancement with AI-generated Text and Diverse Learners

David James Woo, Hengky Susanto, Chi Ho Yeung +1

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, such as ChatGPT, are reshaping how English as a foreign language (EFL) students write since students can compose texts by integrat…

cs.HC2023★ 2 cited

EFL Students' Attitudes and Contradictions in a Machine-in-the-loop Activity System

David James Woo, Hengky Susanto, Kai Guo

This study applies Activity Theory and investigates the attitudes and contradictions of 67 English as a foreign language (EFL) students from four Hong Kong secondary schools toward…

cs.HC2023★ 9 cited

Cases of EFL Secondary Students' Prompt Engineering Pathways to Complete a Writing Task with ChatGPT

David James Woo, Kai Guo, Hengky Susanto

ChatGPT is a state-of-the-art (SOTA) chatbot. Although it has potential to support English as a foreign language (EFL) students' writing, to effectively collaborate with it, a stud…

cs.CY2023★ 41 cited

Exploring EFL students' prompt engineering in human-AI story writing: an Activity Theory perspective

David James Woo, Kai Guo, Hengky Susanto

This study applies Activity Theory to investigate how English as a foreign language (EFL) students prompt generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools during short story writing.…

cs.CL2023★ 5 cited

The Role of AI in Human-AI Creative Writing for Hong Kong Secondary Students

Hengky Susanto, David James Woo, Kai Guo

The recent advancement in Natural Language Processing (NLP) capability has led to the development of language models (e.g., ChatGPT) that is capable of generating human-like langua…

cs.CL2023★ 15 cited

Exploring AI-Generated Text in Student Writing: How Does AI Help?

David James Woo, Hengky Susanto, Chi Ho Yeung +2

English as foreign language_EFL_students' use of text generated from artificial intelligence_AI_natural language generation_NLG_tools may improve their writing quality. However, it…

cs.CY2022★ 39 cited

Understanding EFL Student Idea Generation Strategies for Creative Writing with NLG Tools

David James Woo, Yanzhi Wang, Hengky Susanto +1

Natural language generation (NLG) is a process within artificial intelligence where computer systems produce human-comprehensible language texts from information. English as a fore…