KI-gestützte Textproduktion im universitären DaF-Bereich. Eine empirische Untersuchung mit italienischsprachigen Lernenden der Mittelstufe

The paper presents an empirical study on AI-assisted text production among Italian-speaking students of German as a foreign language (DaF), in which participants were tasked with writing a tourist brochure about the sights of Calabria. The paper first provides an overview of existing research on the integration of AI into teaching and learning processes. Particular attention is paid to possible application scenarios of ChatGPT in language instruction and the initial effects on learners’ performance. Subsequently, the research design of the present study and the modeling of the task setting are described in detail, followed by a presentation of the initial results. Based on these findings, several conclusions can be drawn for the design of AI-supported task settings in the field of DaF.