Investigating EFL students’ linguistic problems using Grammarly as automated writing evaluation feedback

Abstract

A plethora of previous studies has shown that corrective feedback can benefit students to progress in their learning. Due to technological advancement, there is a need to investigate the profile of corrective feedback to students’ writing via automated writing evaluation (AWE), particularly in the Indonesian higher education context. Therefore, this research aims to employ an AWE platform, Grammarly, to investigate the Indonesian English as a foreign language (EFL) students’ writing profiles in spelling, grammar, punctuation, enhancement suggestion, sentence structure, and style check. This ex post facto study explored the assignment written by 54 fourth-semester English department students enrolled in an academic writing course at an Indonesian university. The students’ writing profiles were classified, identified, and categorized using the Grammarly platform. Descriptive statistics were used to obtain the average, standard deviation, and significant differences according to the writing profiles between male and female students. The result stated that grammar is the major problem possessed by students. Furthermore, teachers are expected to provide online corrective feedback for students in the Academic Writing course learning process.

The Use of Online Automated Writing Checkers among EFL Learners

“…Online Writing Checkers are online tools that check writing for grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Some can even go beyond basic correction by checking contextual errors, word selection, and plagiarism (Yang, 2018;Perdana & Farida, 2019;Tambunan, Andayani, Sari, & Lubis, 2020;Ebadi, Gholami, & Vakili, 2022). These tools enable students to correct mistakes with high accuracy and speed.…”

Analisis Survei Terhadap Pengguna Grammarly

“…Open Access: https://ejournal.unma.ac.id/index.php/educatio Dilihat dari sisi kegunaannya grammarly merupakan sebuah alat untuk mengevaluasi tulisan secara otomatis dalam memediasi kekeliruan tatabahasa seperti yang diyakini oleh (Nova 2018;Koltovskaia, 2020;Andayani, Sari, & Lubis, 2022). Secara kualitas, Fitria (2021) mengemukakan bahwa grammarly merupakan alat pengoreksi tatabahasa terbaik hingga saat ini yang berbasis kecerdasan buatan.…”

“…Hal ini menunjukan bahwa dominasi penggunaan grammarly terjadi pada saat para partisipan menulis skripsi (teks berbahasa Inggris). Hal ini dapat dimengerti oleh peneliti karena Grammarly dapat mendeteksi kekeliruan dalam menulis karya ilmiah secara otomatis seperti yang diutarakan oleh (Nova 2018;Bailey & Lee, 2020;Koltovskaia, 2020;Andayani, Sari, & Lubis, 2022). Hal ini sejalan dengan penelitian Fadhilah (2018) dan Novianti (2020) yang menyatakan Grammarly berguna dalam penulisan skripsi mereka.…”

Writing Feedback from a Research Perspective

“…Roscoe, Alen, Johnson, and McNamara (2018) established the fact that the students' "perceptions of automated feedback accuracy, ease of use, relevance, and understanding" and attitudes over regular sessions brought them to revising (Roscoe, Alen, Johnson, & McNamara, 2018). The research on popular systems like Grammarly analysed students' acceptance of the new technology in editing and revising their essays and found outperformance of those who regularly applied Grammarly (Chang, Huang, & Whitfield, 2021;Tambunan, Andayani, Sari, & Lubis, 2022).…”