Proceedings of the 2017 7th International Conference on Social Network, Communication and Education (SNCE 2017)

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

Authors
Lu Xiaoxia
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Lu Xiaoxia
Available Online July 2017.
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2017 7th International Conference on Social Network, Communication and Education (SNCE 2017)
Series
Advances in Computer Science Research
Publication Date
July 2017
ISBN
10.2991/snce-17.2017.33
ISSN
2352-538X
DOI
10.2991/snce-17.2017.33How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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