From Restriction to Responsibility: AI Guideline Development in a Project-based English Program

Hideki Goto, Mayumi Oga, Takuya Inoue, Takuya Hattori and Yukie Kondo

English Language Teaching, 2025, vol. 18, issue 11, 168

Abstract: This study examines the development of guidelines for the use of AI-based machine translation (MT) and generative AI (GenAI) within the Project-based English Program (PEP) at a Japanese university. While these AI tools provide opportunities for translation, writing support, and idea generation, they also raise concerns about overreliance, plagiarism, and the loss of critical thinking. Unlike existing institutional guidelines that tend to be top-down rules and regulations, this study highlights guideline development as a collaborative and participatory process. Drawing on a faculty survey, draft guidelines, faculty feedback, and the final version, we trace how the guidelines developed within PEP evolved from the rule-oriented policies of the draft to the emphasis on encouragement and responsibility in the final version, to better align with the program's educational philosophy. The study demonstrates that such documents are not static sets of rules but mirrors that reflect the educational culture and values of the programs that develop them, remaining open to adaptation as contexts change.

Date: 2025
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/elt/article/download/0/0/52399/57070 (application/pdf)
https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/elt/article/view/0/52399 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ibn:eltjnl:v:18:y:2025:i:11:p:168

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in English Language Teaching from Canadian Center of Science and Education Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Canadian Center of Science and Education ().