Pair-based, discovery-oriented LLM analysis activity following an eight-week disciplinary module¶

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Evidence · 2 claims (1 for, 1 mixed) · 1 study (1 qualitative), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description¶

The intervention's design combined two pedagogical principles: Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development, realized through paired work, and Dewey's learning through experience, realized as an authentic discovery-oriented task without explicit prompt-engineering instruction. Students first completed an eight-week instructional module on text linguistics concepts, then manually analyzed a newspaper article, and finally used an LLM to verify their analysis, creating their own prompts and comparing AI-generated analysis with their own. The authors report that "students completed the assignment in pairs, allowing them to discuss prompting strategies, compare interpretations of LLM outputs, and jointly construct solutions". The activity was part of the course exam program and completed at home over two weeks.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

Prior instructional module building the disciplinary knowledge needed to evaluate LLM outputs
access to LLMs via chatbot interfaces

Constraints¶

Without expert scaffolding, students' prompting strategies remained limited, with little use of few-shot prompting or in-context examples

Target Learners¶

undergraduate students in multilingual communication
genAI novices

Learning Goals¶

anaphoric relation reconstruction
discourse connective analysis
critical evaluation of AI-generated outputs

Claims¶

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

Nicola Brocca, Davide Garassino. (2026). LLMs in text linguistics teaching: an exploratory study with genAI novices in higher education. Computers and Education Open 11 (2026) 100414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeo.2026.100414

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`title`	`Pair-based, discovery-oriented LLM analysis activity following an eight-week disciplinary module`
`description`	`The intervention's design combined two pedagogical principles: Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development, realized through paired work, and Dewey's learning through experience, realized as an authentic discovery-oriente...`
`status`	`review`
`generated`	by `process:settle-candidates` on `2026-10-12`
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`sources`	1 — `nicola-brocca-2026`

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