Exploring the Efficacy of Idiomify: How Effective is GPT-3 for Teaching Idioms to EFL Writers?

some examples of idiomify with GPT-3

Research Questions

We aimed to answer the overarching question: How effective is Idiomify in helping EFL writers learn idioms? To answer this, we explored the efficacy of Idiomify in terms of five factors:

1. Appropriateness. How appropriate are Idiomify’s suggestions?
2. Learning idioms. Do learners learn the meaning of idioms as they revise their drafts with Idiomify?
3. Learners’ perceptions. What about Idiomify do learners find helpful or unhelpful?
4. Transparency of idioms. Do the answers to 1 and 2 differ in how transparent learners find the idioms that Idiomify suggests?