A Study on the Effects of Feedback Given to Students by Computer to Increase Their Performance in English Writing

DOI

10.2991/snce-17.2017.33How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Computer; Feedback; English writing; Performance; Effect

Abstract

Computer evaluation has widely been used to automate grading of students papers, especially in English writing in college and universities in China, and computer can also provide feedback to the students. This study is to examine whether or not feedback given by computer to the students has a positive impact on the following essay in terms of fluency, accuracy and complexity. Two students of English majors were chosen as the subjects, and they submitted their essays on the line once every two weeks. Their four essays were selected and studied and analyzed. After the essay analysis, the author finds that both before feedback and after feedback, reveal that these two students improved greatly in accuracy, though not much progress either in fluency or complexity. So it gets the conclusion of the study that computer evaluation really has positive effects on students' English writing and the students could make progress if they take computer feedback seriously.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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