Critical literacies in writing with generative artificial intelligence: social practices, multilingualism and legitimacy
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https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.18298Keywords:
Critical literacies, Generative artificial intelligence, Literacy practices, Multilingualism, Linguistic legitimacyAbstract
This theoretical essay examines critical literacies in writing with generative artificial intelligence in multilingual educational practices. It argues that developing a critical judgment, having opportunities to discuss it, and obtaining institutional recognition are distinct relationships whose articulation helps explain the scope of participation. Grounded in New Literacy Studies and Hilary Janks’s critical perspective, it develops a bibliographic and conceptual analysis of contributions on assisted writing, evaluation, and multilingualism. It distinguishes technological availability, institutional recognition, and the legitimacy of evaluation criteria, avoiding an equation between acceptance and criticality. Its proposed contribution is to examine situations in which a reasoned judgment encounters restricted opportunities for dialogue, as well as situations in which an accepted text remains insufficiently examined. A hypothetical multilingual situation supports the discussion of textual transformations, system-generated explanations, and institutional responses to writers’ decisions. The essay concludes that conditions of recognition affect the exercise and scope of critical participation without determining the critical quality of every judgment. It offers analytical questions for future research without presenting original empirical data or an instrument for measuring competencies.
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