The Effectiveness of Automated Essay Scoring in an EFL College Classroom

Kim, Ji Eun

doi:10.15702/mall.2014.17.3.11

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“…Moreover, research has shown that AWCF could be effective for students at differential proficiency levels. For example, Kim’s (2014) study demonstrated that AWCF helped both the high- and low-level students to significantly improve their writing quality from the first draft to the revised draft. Despite the effectiveness of AWCF on student writing, there has been a lack of research on how a combination of AWCF with teacher WCF can impact students’ writing quality, particularly to Chinese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students.…”

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Exploring the Effects of Automated Written Corrective Feedback on EFL Students’ Writing Quality: A Mixed-Methods Study

Fan

2023

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Despite a large number of studies on the adoption of automated writing evaluation (AWE) systems, the effects of automated written corrective feedback (AWCF) on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students’ writing has been insufficiently documented. This study employed a mixed-method approach to examine such effects because of the significance of AWCF in EFL writing. Using a quasi-experimental design, this study explored how AWCF through Grammarly affected EFL students’ writing quality. A total of 67 EFL students from two intact university English classes participated in this study, with a treatment group receiving two rounds of Grammarly feedback and teacher feedback while a comparison group receiving teacher feedback only. The results of the posttest writing task revealed that the students from the treatment group did not significantly outperform the students from the comparison group in syntactic and lexical complexity, accuracy, and fluency. A follow-up questionnaire consisting of fixed-response and open-ended questions was administered to the students from the treatment group after the posttest to elicit the students’ perceptions of Grammarly feedback effects on their writing. The qualitative findings supported and provided deeper insights into the quantitative results. This study was concluded with a discussion of its limitations and implications.

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