A Systematic Review of Trends and Educational Research Issues of Digital-Supported Writing: A Promising English Learning Environment for Thai Higher Education

Abstract

Due to the rapid development of digital support for both Artificial Intelligence (AI) and non-AI technologies, the current and future English language education is required to deal with these advancements and particularly enabling writing skills needed for higher education at the university level. The reason is that writing tends to be a difficult task for most students since it combines cognition and language utilization. In higher education, students must practice and apply English writing skills for their writing exams, projects, and papers for graduation or publication and prepare themselves for future work. The assistance from AI and non- AI technologies has a revolutionary role in supporting the English writing skills of students as well as helping teachers during instruction. Therefore, this paper aims to review the academic papers which applied AI and non-AI technologies to enable English writing skills of university students, the reliability of these advancements, and their role of them as an assistant for writing skills, as well as guide how the features of AI technologies could use as learning strategies for university students in Thailand context.