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Reclaiming Voice: Student Ownership in AI-Assisted Academic Writing in an EMI Context (101908)
Session Chair: Kay Wijekumar
Saturday, 7 February 2026 10:00
Session: Session 1
Room: Tourmaline 207 (Level 2)
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
As generative AI tools become increasingly integrated into the academic writing process, educators in English-medium instruction (EMI) contexts face new challenges related to authorship, originality, and writing voice. This presentation reports on a short course titled Discovering Your Voice with AI, taught at a Sino-American university in China. The course was designed to help multilingual students develop rhetorical awareness and reclaim authorial voice while critically engaging with AI-generated text as a tool. Drawing on student-produced writing samples, prompt refinements, and written reflections, this study investigates how students assert ownership over revised AI-generated content. Through guided activities, students compared their original writing with AI-generated versions, then revised the AI texts to better reflect their tone, stance, and emotional depth. Final reflections reveal that students often did not consider AI output “their own” unless they had made substantial revisions. Many described authorship as emerging from effort, intention, and alignment with personal voice. The analysis integrates Ivanič and Camps’ (2001) framework for authorial voice to examine textual revisions, and thematic coding to explore student perceptions of ownership. Findings suggest that multilingual writers in EMI contexts actively negotiate authorship in response to AI. They view revision not simply as correction but as a means of expressing identity and establishing originality. This presentation offers practical implications for EAP and EAC instructors working with AI-supported writing. It shows that student voice can be strengthened, not diminished, when writing instruction foregrounds rhetorical awareness and authorship as active, reflective processes in the age of AI.
Authors:
Layla Shelmerdine, Duke Kunshan University, China
About the Presenter(s)
Dr Layla Shelmerdine is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at Duke Kunshan University in China
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