Convenience–learning divergence proposition: satisfaction and adaptation may rise under AI mediation while intercultural engagement and frame revision fall¶

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q1 i? The article proposes that student satisfaction and sociocultural adaptation may increase under AI mediation even where intercultural engagement and frame revision decrease, and that these outcomes should be measured separately. → Gupta 2026

Evidence¶

Gupta 2026¶

Gupta, K. (2026). The friction paradox: generative AI and the educational value of difficulty in education abroad. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-10609387/v1

q1 · i? · theoretical · r2

This is Proposition 5 of the article's conceptual framework, a theoretical argument rather than a tested result. The article offers it as the condition under which its framework and the adaptation findings would yield different conclusions from the same data; no empirical evidence is presented for it in the article.

"Student satisfaction and sociocultural adaptation may increase under AI mediation even where intercultural engagement and frame revision decrease."

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