Title : Incorporation of Automated Writing Evaluation
Software in Language Education: A Case of Evening University Students‟
Self-Regulated Learning in Taiwan
Writer and Institution
: Bin-Bin Yu
Publisher : International Journal of Information and Education Technology, Vol. 5,
No. 11, November 2015
The capability
to write becomes imperative skill that must be mastered by the pupils today
because of the irresistible trend of
globalization and internationalization worldwide. Therefore, educators’
responsibilities to enhance pupils’ writing skill must be increased also along
with the improvement of technology. One of the technology can be wielded is Criterion
that is a web-based Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE) program with the essay
scoring engine E-rater developed by Educational Testing Service (ETS) in
the mid-1990s. By using that software . It is actually expected that by using
AWE program, pupils can fruitfully attain their lifelong learner for self- regulated learning.
The design of
this research is case study research in which the purpose are to compare
participants’ common errors with those of native speakers, and to find out possible
factors that give rise to non-native speakers’ common errors. The design of
this research is case study research. Anymore, the finding diagnosed that after
using AWE, there was a significant increase in the score and the length of
student essays as well as the repetition of words to be the weakest aspect of
writing for both native and non-native students.
AWE program is
very agreeable, if it is implemented in education in Indonesia since it is
helping out the educators’ workload and
rising the students’ abilities in writing. But, the most important is the teacher must get of best of applying this AWE program. Ultimately, by utilizing the AWE
program, It is hoped that the objectives
of lifelong learning can be possibly reached through their successful
experience for self-regulated learning.
