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Which do students prefer to evaluate their essays: Peers or computer program
Author(s) -
Lai Yihsiu
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
british journal of educational technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.79
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1467-8535
pISSN - 0007-1013
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2009.00959.x
Subject(s) - grading (engineering) , second language writing , peer feedback , class (philosophy) , psychology , peer evaluation , mathematics education , peer assessment , english as a foreign language , computer science , pedagogy , multimedia , higher education , second language , linguistics , artificial intelligence , engineering , philosophy , civil engineering , law , political science
The purpose of this study was to investigate problems and potentials of new technologies in English writing education. The effectiveness of automated writing evaluation (AWE) ( MY Access ) and of peer evaluation (PE) was compared. Twenty‐two English as a foreign language (EFL) learners in Taiwan participated in this study. They submitted their draft to MY Access , received feedback from this automated grading system and then made some revision. In addition to the AWE, they also had peer revision in writing class. Three issues, including how writers used the feedback from these two kinds of evaluation, what progress they made in writing and how they perceived these two kinds of evaluation, are discussed. Results showed that EFL learners in Taiwan generally opted for PE over AWE. These findings raise several relevant issues, including social learning, feedback strategies, computer anxiety and cultural impact.