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The AI Paradox in L2 Writing: Why Helpful Feedback Creates Unhelpful Dependency in Higher Education

2026-02-18

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Large Language Models (LLMs) offer immediate pedagogical benefits in higher education L2 writing instruction, yet sustained reliance creates critical, underexplored risks to learner autonomy, metacognitive judgment, and linguistic identity. This Critical Interpretive Synthesis (CIS) of 47 peer-reviewed studies (2015–2025) identifies which patterns of AI-assisted interaction led to succe...

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