Harnessing AI Tools to Enhance English Writing Skills in Undergraduate Education

Authors

  • Suleiman Ibrahim Mohammad

    Electronic Marketing and Social Media, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Zarqa University, Zarqa 13115, Jordan

    Faculty of Business and Communications, INTI International University, Nilai 71800, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
  • Waheed Shafiah

    Department of English, Vallurupalli Nageswara Rao Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering &Technology, Bachupally, Hyderabad, Telangana 500090, India
  • Asokan Vasudevan

    Faculty of Business and Communications, INTI International University, Nilai 71800, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia

    Business Department, Faculty of Management, Shinawatra University, PathumThani 12160, Thailand

    Business Studies Department, Business School, Wekerle International University, Budapest, Jázmin u. 10, 1083 Hungary
  • Raja Natarajan

    Department of Visual Communication, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600119, India
  • Afsha Jamal

    English Department, College of Sciences and Humanities, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Aldwasir 18615, Saudi Arabia
  • Sunand Emmanuel Thella

    Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vasavi College of Engineering (A), Hyderabad, Telangana 500031, India
  • Grace Shanthi William

    Department of Mathematics & Humanities, Kakatiya Institute of Technology & Science, Koukonda, Telangana 506015, India
  • John Wesley Sasikanth Kambham

    Department of English, DVR & Dr. HS MIC College of Technology affiliated to JNTUK, Kanchikacherla, Andhra
    Pradesh 521180, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30564/fls.v7i12.11905
Received: 1 September 2025 | Revised: 19 September 2025 | Accepted: 24 September 2025 | Published Online: 10 November 2025

Abstract

AI tools, especially ChatGPT, play a vital role in enhancing English writing skills. The objective centers on probing how it assists undergraduate learners in improving their writing skills, from making useful notes to drafting formal letters in their daily life. The study explores the efficiency of AI tool ChatGPT upon improving writing skills among undergraduate learners through a quasi-experiment in a few selected topics: letter writing, email writing, paragraph writing, and report writing. The research gap is that the undergraduates lack adequate skills in drafting the above topics in English language. Insights are also drawn from the real-life instances of the drafted letters by the undergraduate learners to the higher authorities, i.e., the Principal and the HoDs requesting them to issue various certificates, such as study, bonafide, transfer, and late fee payment permission letters. With the help of Quasi-experiment method of pre-test and post-test, students were subjected to formal letter drafting, email writing, paragraph writing, and report writing. The post-tests gave better results that the students have improved on grammar, sentence structure, vocabulary, accuracy coherence. Hence, the study suggests that AI-driven tools can enhance writing skills of undergraduates in English Language. To sum up, the study highlights the need of harnessing AI tool ChatGPT to write better writing skills in English Language.

Keywords:

AI Tool; ChatGPT; English Language; Writing Skills; Undergraduates; Quasi Experiment

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Ibrahim Mohammad, S., Shafiah, W., Vasudevan, A., Natarajan, R., Jamal, A., Emmanuel Thella, S., Shanthi William, G., & Sasikanth Kambham, J. W. (2025). Harnessing AI Tools to Enhance English Writing Skills in Undergraduate Education. Forum for Linguistic Studies, 7(12), 651–665. https://doi.org/10.30564/fls.v7i12.11905

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