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These concerns are particularly salient in a globalized academic landscape where the dominance of English often places non-native speakers at a distinct disadvantage (Jain et al., 2022).
Is the use of AI helping non-native speakers navigate the "proper" uses of the English language or just pushing them further behind and ultimately placing them at a disadvantage ?
What is largely missing is a sustained inquiry into how generative AI tools reshape researchers’ self-perception, particularly with regard to their professional identity and epistemic legitimacy.
AI tools are making people question their academic integrity and self perception but how specifically ?
By examining how non-native English researchers experience and make sense of their use of ChatGPT in research writing, the study advances current discourse on academic identity formation under emerging technological conditions. It offers timely insights for researchers, institutions, and policymakers concerned with the ethical, psychological, and professional dimensions of AI integration in scholarly practice.
Looks at how non-native English-speaking researchers use ChatGPT in their academic writing and how that affects their sense of identity as scholars. It adds to current conversations about how technology is shaping what it means to be a researcher today.
Underpinned by this perspective, Walshaw (2008), influenced by Foucault’s (1972) Theory of Power and Knowledge, approaches researcher identity from the notion of self, focusing on “understanding who I am and who you are”—how researcher identity is shaped by both personal self-perception and external perceptions from the academic community—and “self-in-conflict”—the internal struggles researchers face when their personal values, beliefs, and aspirations clash with external expectations or institutional demands (p. 326).
Walshaw talks about how a researcher’s sense of who they are is shaped both by how they see themselves and how others in the academic world see them. Walshaw also points out that researchers often struggle internally when their own beliefs or goals don’t line up with what institutions or academic systems expect from them.