LINGUISTIK : Jurnal Bahasa & Sastra
http://jurnal.um-tapsel.ac.id/index.php/Linguistik| Vol.6 No.2 Juli- Desember 2021
e- ISSN 2548 9402 | | DOI : 10.31604/linguistik.v6i2.342-355
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TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION ON THE EVECTIVENESS USING GRAMMARLY AS
A TOOL FOR WRITING ASSESSMENT
Siti Deti Wijayanti
siti.deti17160@student.unsika.ac.id
Universitas Singaperbangsa Karawang
Sumarta
Universitas Singaperbangsa Karawang
Maya Rahmawati
Universitas Singaperbangsa Karawang
ABSTRACT
In this digital era, the progress writing assessment changes rapidly to monitor and
determine students' writing has developed tools to assess the students’ writing
automatically to help the teacher. The tools called Automated Writing Evaluation
(AWE) are more commonly known as computer-generated feedback. On the other
hand, Grammarly as one of the developed AWE programs is effective to help teachers
in correcting EFL writing. Most previous studies, however, are primarily concerned
with students’ improvement and perceptions of using Grammarly. While limited study
taking yet on Teachers’ perception on the effectiveness of Grammarly application as a
tool of writing assessment. This research aimed at investigating teachers’ perception of
the effectiveness of the Grammarly application as a tool of writing assessment. This
research used the qualitative approach with a descriptive case study design. The subject
of the research was three EFL teacher who has been teaching the English language for
many years and used Grammarly as a tool for writing assessment. The findings from
three participants indicate that the teachers respond positive perception. Positive
perception refers toward that Grammarly had helped the teachers in assessing students’
writing assessment effectively and efficiently at grammar, punctuation, and spelling
features based on principle assessment by (brown, 2004) that is practical, reliable,
valid, authentic, and washback.
Keywords: Grammarly, Teacher Perception
Abstrak
Di era digital ini kemajuan penilaian menulis berubah dengan cepat untuk memantau
dan menentukan tulisan siswa telah dikembangkan alat untuk menilai tulisan siswa
secara otomatis untuk membantu guru. Alat tersebut bernama Automated Writing
Evaluation (AWE) yang lebih dikenal dengan computer-generated feedback. Di sisi
lain, Grammarly sebagai salah satu program AWE yang dikembangkan efektif
membantu guru dalam mengoreksi tulisan EFL. Kebanyakan studi sebelumnya,
bagaimanapun, terutama berkaitan dengan peningkatan dan persepsi siswa
menggunakan Grammarly. Sedangkan kajian yang masih terbatas tentang persepsi
Guru tentang keefektifan penerapan Grammarly sebagai alat penilaian menulis.