{"title":"Decision-making in decoding AI-generated content: Emotional dynamics and pedagogical strategies in English for specific purposes education","authors":"Laleh Khojasteh, Nasrin Shokrpour, Shadab Moslehi","doi":"10.1016/j.tate.2025.104952","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates how ten experienced ESP writing instructors at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran, identify AI-generated content in L2 student assignments. Using think-aloud protocols and interviews, the study explores the interplay between intuitive and analytical decision-making strategies, influenced by emotional factors like empathy and cognitive overload. Findings reveal that instructors rely on intuition but adjust their approach based on pedagogical and emotional contexts. The study highlights strategies to maintain academic integrity and foster authentic language development, offering insights for educators navigating AI challenges in both Middle Eastern and global educational settings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48430,"journal":{"name":"Teaching and Teacher Education","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 104952"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Teaching and Teacher Education","FirstCategoryId":"95","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0742051X25000289","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This study investigates how ten experienced ESP writing instructors at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran, identify AI-generated content in L2 student assignments. Using think-aloud protocols and interviews, the study explores the interplay between intuitive and analytical decision-making strategies, influenced by emotional factors like empathy and cognitive overload. Findings reveal that instructors rely on intuition but adjust their approach based on pedagogical and emotional contexts. The study highlights strategies to maintain academic integrity and foster authentic language development, offering insights for educators navigating AI challenges in both Middle Eastern and global educational settings.
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Teaching and Teacher Education is an international journal concerned primarily with teachers, teaching, and/or teacher education situated in an international perspective and context. The journal focuses on early childhood through high school (secondary education), teacher preparation, along with higher education concerning teacher professional development and/or teacher education. Teaching and Teacher Education is a multidisciplinary journal committed to no single approach, discipline, methodology, or paradigm. The journal welcomes varied approaches (qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods) to empirical research; also publishing high quality systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Manuscripts should enhance, build upon, and/or extend the boundaries of theory, research, and/or practice in teaching and teacher education. Teaching and Teacher Education does not publish unsolicited Book Reviews.