Thanks for your interest in our study: Using ChatGPT as a conversational tool for Catalan!

This research is being conducted by Mireia Toda Cosi at the University of Maryland, College Park. You are being invited to participate because you are a learner of Catalan at approximately the B1 level. Our goal is to see how helpful ChatGPT can be as a conversational partner with learners of Catalan.

Procedures: You will first complete a screening questionnaire to check your eligibility (<2 min). If you qualify, the survey will move forward to a few questions about your language learning journey, demographics, and attitudes towards Artificial Intelligence (10 min). After that, you will be asked to provide your email and schedule a session with me, which will take place over Zoom and last no more than one hour.

Potential Risks and Discomforts: There are no known risks to completing this survey besides a the possibility of a breach of confidentiality. Any potential loss of confidentiality will be minimized by storing the survey responses in Qualtrics until downloaded to my Drive. Before uploading the answers to Drive, the data will be split into a document with personally identifiable information and your personal information (email and name) will be swapped for a participant ID.
Potential Benefits There are no direct benefits from participating in this survey, but the results will help us gather a representative set of Catalan learners.

Right to Withdraw and Questions: Your participation is completely voluntary and you can choose not to participate at all. If you decide not to participate in this study or if you stop participating at any time, you will not be penalized or lose any benefits to which you otherwise qualify. if you have questions, concerns, or complaints, or if you need to report an injury related to the research, you can contact me at: todacosi@umd.edu.

If you have questions about your rights as a research participant or wish to report a research-related injury, please contact:

University of Maryland College Park
Institutional Review Board Office
1204 Marie Mount Hall
College Park, Maryland, 20742
 E-mail: irb@umd.edu 
Telephone: 301-405-0678
IRBNet # 2133757-1

For more information regarding participant rights, please visit:
https://research.umd.edu/research-resources/research-compliance/institutional-review-board-irb/research-participants

This research has been reviewed according to the University of Maryland, College Park IRB procedures for research involving human subjects.

We recommend you download a copy of the consent language for your records.
 
Statement of Consent: By checking the box “I agree”, you are indicating that you are 18 years of age or older, you have read this consent form or have had it read to you; your questions have been answered to your satisfaction and you voluntarily agree to participate in this research study.