EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF AI-WRITING TOOLS ON ENGLISH

LANGUAGE LEARNERS’ WRITING SKILLS

Researchers: Santos, Kyla Q., Surposa, Juan Miguel, Silva, Kristine Mae M.

RESEARCH QUESTIONS & INTERVIEW GUIDE QUESTIONS

Pre-validation
PRE-VALIDATION QUESTIONS ALWAYS SELDOM NEVER

PQ1 I use AI-writing tools (e.g. Quillbot,

ChatGPT, CiCi, Gemini, etc.) for my
assignment writing activities.

PQ2 I use AI-writing tools to check

and refine my grammar in
writing.

PQ3 I use AI-writing tools for writing

poems and short stories.

PQ4 I use AI-writing tools for content

generation and ideas for my
writing.

Note: If all of the 4 Pre-validation questions were answered “ALWAYS” and “SELDOM”, then He/She
will be considered as an official participant/s of the researchers study. If He/She answered some
questions with “NEVER”, He/She will not be considered as an official research participant/s.

RESEARCH QUESTIONS INTERVIEW GUIDE QUESTIONS

1.​ What are the experiences of 1.1. Can you provide a situation
where you used AI writing tools, and
English language learners in it helped you in your writing
process? In what aspects of the tool
using AI writing tools? were most beneficial?

1.2. Have you encountered any

challenges or annoyances in using
AI-writing tools for your school work
or assignments? How do AI writing
tools impact your creativity in writing
short stories and poems? Provide
specific examples.

1.3. Do AI-writing tools help you a

lot in terms of learning new
vocabulary and grammatical
 structures? Can you provide an
example?

2.​ How do AI writing tools impact 2.1. While continuing using AI writing
tools, have you noticed any
English language learners’ improvements or changes in your
accuracy of writing? Give a specific
writing skills? example.

2.2. How has using AI-writing tools

affected your confidence level in writing
English? Do you feel more confident?
Or less, because you can't write without
the assistance of these tools? Explain
your reasoning.

2.3. How do AI writing tools affect your

ability to structure and organize your
writing, think independently, and
maintain creativity and originality? Do
you think they make it harder for you to
write, or have they been beneficial?
Why?

INTERVIEW SCRIPT

(The researchers will be welcoming the participants by greeting them and give them
the background and the purpose of the study)

Researcher 1: Good day everyone, especially to our dear respondents of this study.
Before we will start our interview, we would like to introduce first ourselves, I am Kyla
Santos, and;
Researcher 2: I am Kristine Mae Silva.
Researcher 3: And I am Juan Miguel Surposa, and we are the pioneering students of
Bachelor of Secondary Education Major in English in University of Mindanao Digos
College.

Researcher 1: We, the researchers, are so happy because you will be part of our
study as our participants, and we are so honored to have you. Our study is entitled
“EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF AI WRITING TOOLS ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE
LEARNERS’ WRITING SKILLS”. As a researcher, the main purpose of our study is to
explore and examine what are the impacts of using AI writing tools to the English
language learners, what are the advantages and disadvantages of it, and how it
affects their writing skills in the long run.

Researcher 2: So before we set this interview, we already gave you the informed
consent and as your researcher, we promised to secure you and protect you from any
harm. We are strictly following the ethical consideration in our study so, we will
assure your anonymity and confidentiality. You are also given enough time to answer
the questions and will be treated equally with utmost respect. In addition, dear
participants, whenever you feel discomfort while answering our questions, you will
always be given an opportunity to withdraw your answer and your participation in the
study.

Researcher 1: So I believe that everything is on set now, so for the information of our
participants, the researchers will be asking 4 preliminary questions answerable by
‘always’, ‘sometimes’, and ‘never,’ then after that if you passed in our
pre-assessment, you will now then be qualified as our official participant. Don’t worry,
we will be giving you some treats after this, as a gratitude for your participation. So let
us start.

A.​ AI use AI-writing tools (e.g. Quillbot, ChatGPT, CiCi, Gemini, etc.) for my
assignment writing activities.

Participants:………………………………………………………………………….

B. I use AI-writing tools to check and refine my grammar in writing.

Participants:…………………………………………………………………………

C. I use AI-writing tools for writing poems and short stories.

Participants:…………………………………………………………………………

D. I use AI-writing tools for content generation and ideas for my writing.

Participants:…………………………………………………………………………

Researcher 2: Congratulations you answered all the preliminary questions and now
based on your answers you are now our official participants so we will proceed now
to the actual interviews. The data that we will be gathering from you will help the
researcher to distinguish whether the research question was answered. We prepared
8 validated questions for you and this will help us as the researcher to attain the
desired data. Now let’s go to our research question No. 1:

1. What are the experiences of English language learners in using AI writing

 tools?
Participant:……………………………………………………………………………
a. Can you provide a situation where you used AI writing tools, and it
helped you in your writing process? In what aspects of the tool
were most beneficial?
Participant:………………………………………………………………

b. Have you encountered any challenges or annoyances in using

AI-writing tools for your school work or assignments? Provide
specific examples.
●​ How do AI writing tools impact your creativity in writing short stories
and poems?

Participant:……………………………………………………………………

c. Do AI-writing tools help you a lot in terms of learning new

vocabulary and grammatical structures? Can you provide an
example?
Participant:..................................................................................................

Researcher 3:
2. How do AI writing tools impact English language learners’ writing skills?
Participant:………………………………………………………………………..
a. While continuing using AI writing tools, have you noticed any
improvements or changes in your accuracy of writing? Give a specific
example.

Participant:…………………………………………………………………

b. How has using AI-writing tools affected your confidence level in

writing English? Do you feel more confident? Or less, because
you can't write without the assistance of these tools? Explain
your reasoning.

Participant:…………………………………………………………………

c. How do AI writing tools affect your ability to structure and organize

your writing, think independently, and maintain creativity and
originality? Do you think they make it harder for you to write, or have
they been beneficial? Why?

Participant:……………………………………………………………………

Researcher 1: That ends our interview. Thank you so much (name of the participant)
for being part of our study. Rest assured that all the data that we gathered from you
will be retrieved with confidentiality. Thank you so much for lending us your precious
time and we really appreciate your effort in answering all the questions. May God
bless you always and have a good day!