our publications
curriculum & pedagogy
JOURNALS & BOOK CHAPTERS
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Cooper, G., Tang, K.S, & Rappa, A. (2024). Generative artificial intelligence as epistemic authority? Perspectives from higher education. In: Crompton, H. & Burke. D. (Eds) Artificial Intelligence Applications in Higher Education: Theories, Ethics, and Case Studies for Schools. Routledge.
Tang, K.S. Cooper, G., Rappa, N., Cooper, M., Sims, C., & Nonis, K. (2024). A Dialogic Approach to Transform Teaching, Learning & Assessment with Generative AI in Secondary Education: A Proof of Concept. Pedagogies: An International Journal, 19(3), 493-503. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554480X.2024.2379774
Tang, K.S. Cooper, G., Rappa, N., Cooper, M., Sims, C., & Nonis, K. (2024). A Dialogic Approach to Transform Teaching, Learning & Assessment with Generative AI in Secondary Education: A Proof of Concept. Pedagogies: An International Journal, 19(3), 493-503. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554480X.2024.2379774
Tang, K.S. & Putra, B. (2025, July). Dialogic Science Teacher: A Customized Generative AI Chatbot for Fostering Scientific Argumentation and Perspective-Taking. Paper accepted at the 56th annual conference of the Australasian Science Education Research Association (ASERA), Melbourne, Australia.
Tang, K.S. & Putra, B. (2025, July). Fostering Dialogic Interaction and Argumentation in Science with Customized Generative AI Chatbots. Paper accepted at the 16th annual conference of the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA), Copenhagen, Denmark.
science education
JOURNALS & BOOK CHAPTERS
Cooper, G. (2023). Examining science education in ChatGPT: An exploratory study of generative artificial intelligence. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 32(3),444–452.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-023-10039-y
Cooper, G. & Tang, K.S. (2024). Pixels and pedagogy: Examining science education imagery by generative artificial intelligence. Journal of Science Education & Technology.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-024-10104-0
Tang, K.S. (2024). Informing research on generative artificial intelligence from a language and literacy perspective: A meta-synthesis of studies in science education, Science Education, 108(5), 1329-1335. https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.21875
Tang, K.S. & Cooper, G. (2024). The role of materiality in an era of generative artificial intelligence. Science & Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-024-00508-0
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Tang, K.S. & Cooper, G. (2024, July). Multimodal Capabilities of Generative AI: To What Extent can ChatGPT & Gemini Produce Visual Representations of Science? Paper presented at the 55th annual conference of the Australasian Science Education Research Association (ASERA), Auckland, New Zealand
Applied linguistics
JOURNALS & BOOK CHAPTERS
Tang, K.S. (2024). Claiming the research expertise on human-GenAI interaction for sociolinguistics. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 28(5), 16-19https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12683
Tang, K.S. (2025). AI-textuality: Expanding Intertextuality to Theorize Human-AI Interaction with Generative AI, Applied Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amaf016
Tang, K.S. (In press). “Many Different Ways of Saying the Same Thing”: Lemke’s Thematic Pattern in Science Discourse and AI-generated Texts. Critical Discourse Studies.
Conference Presentations
Rappa, N., Tang, K.S., Cooper, G., Nonis, K., Cooper, M., Sims, C. (2024, June). Conversations with AI: Do pragmatic principles still apply? Paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 25, Perth, Australia
Tang, K.S. (2024, June). Untangling the Heteroglossic Nature of Generative AI: Whose Voices is it? Paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 25, Perth, Australia
General Research
JOURNALS & BOOK CHAPTERS
Tang, K. S., Cooper, G., & Nielsen, W. (2024). Philosophical, Legal, Ethical, and Practical Considerations in the Emerging Use of Generative AI in Academic Journals: Guidelines for Research in Science Education (RISE). Research in Science Education, 54(5), 797–807. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-024-10192-3