A Systemic Functional Linguistic Analysis of ChatGPT’s Academic Writing Responses: Metafunctional Patterns and Implications for Writing Pedagogy
Generative artificial intelligence (AI), particularly ChatGPT, is having a significant impact on how academic writing is produced, taught and assessed in higher education. This study uses Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to analyze how ChatGPT constructs meaning when it responds to academic writing prompts. Drawin...