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A Study On Teachers' Attitudes And Behaviors In College English Writing Based On Automated Writing Evaluation System

Posted on:2018-08-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M Y SunFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330542462380Subject:Subject teaching
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As we all know,English writing plays an important role in English.Writing can not only cultivate people's thinking ability,but also have a great influence on people's comprehensive quality.All along,the topic of English Writing emerge in endlessly.With the development and improvement of modern information technology in the field of education,more and more attention has been paid to the research of automatic evaluation system of English Writing in recent years.Although a large number of scholars have done research on this aspect,the research on teachers' behavior and attitude is very few.For this phenomenon,the author thinks that it is necessary to do some research in this aspect,then elicits the revelation,provide the suggestions and references for the future studies,teaching and research activities.This article mainly uses the methods of quantitative research and qualitative research combined.Through sample analysis,interviews,case studies research and experimental data comparison method,from various angles to explore,trying to verify(1)The validity of the automated writing evaluation system(2)Teachers' attitude and evaluation on the AWE(3)Based on the AWE,the influence of teachers' attitude and behavior on students' writing(4)How should teachers use the AWE to take its full advantage?In this paper,the main object of research is teacher.The author chose eight English teachers that from the 2015 non English Majors of Harbin Normal University.The main research methods are interview and case studies.Through interviews to understand teachers' attitude and evaluation on AWE.Through case studies to understand the change of teacher's attitude and behavior,and the effect of the change on students.Meanwhile,the author selects 2015 non English Majors of Harbin Normal University,which are the experimental class and the parallel class,with a total of 78 students for a period of two semesters.During this period,the author had extract three compositions for data analysis.Through the research and analysis of the data above,the author draws the following conclusions:(1)AWE system has certain advantages,but there are also shortcomings,it can not completely substitute teachers,but for students' daily writing,it has some merits(2)Through the analysis of experimental data and interviews,the author found that most of teachers and students still hold a positive attitude on AWE,a very few hold a negative attitude,but people to remain neutral in the majority(3)Teachers' attitude and behavior has a great influence on students and teachers are students learning leader,the things under the teacher's identity and lead,the students will be more willing to accept to know(4)Advanced science and technology certainly has its advantages,but teachers plays a leading role in the teaching,so teachers should good at use technology.Don't blindly accept it,to use properly use to play its greatest advantage.Through the study of this article,the author draws some conclusion.In the meantime,this paper also has many shortcomings.For this,the author introduces the summary and prospect at the end of this article.Hope to have some enlightenment and reference for the follow-up study.
Keywords/Search Tags:automated writing evaluation system(AWE), teacher's attitude, teacher's behavior
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