School of Foreign Language Studies, Xi'an University, Shaanxi, China.
Big Data. 2019 Jun;7(2):121-129. doi: 10.1089/big.2018.0151. Epub 2019 May 10.
The Artificial Intelligence Writing Evaluation system is widely used in China College English writing. It provides for both teachers and the English learners services of automated composition evaluation on the net in order that teacher's working load can be reduced and they can learn directly about the students' English writing level and that the students' English writing will be improved. Juku automated writing evaluation (AWE) is one of the most used systems among colleges and universities in China. The empirical study was conducted on the use of Juku AWE in college English teaching. Through the experiment with 114 students from 2 classes in Xi'an University and questionnaires and interview for both 30 teachers and 200 students using Juku AWE, the author finds that: (1) Using AWE does effectively help the students with their English writing; (2) Both teachers and students have positive attitude to the use of AWE in terms of immediate and clear feedback, time-saving, and arousing interests in English writing; and (3) AWE still needs to be perfected as it cannot provide proper evaluation on the text structure, content logic, and coherence. So both teachers and students should take the score from AWE objectively.
人工智能写作评估系统在中国的大学英语写作中得到了广泛应用。它为教师和英语学习者提供了网络自动化作文评估服务，以便减轻教师的工作量，使他们能够直接了解学生的英语写作水平，提高学生的英语写作水平。句酷批改网（Juku）自动写作评估（AWE）是中国高校最常用的系统之一。本研究对句酷批改网在大学英语教学中的应用进行了实证研究。通过对西安大学两个班的 114 名学生进行实验，以及对使用句酷批改网的 30 名教师和 200 名学生进行问卷调查和访谈，作者发现：（1）使用 AWE 确实有助于学生的英语写作；（2）教师和学生对 AWE 的使用都持积极态度，认为它能提供及时、清晰的反馈，节省时间，激发英语写作兴趣；（3）AWE 仍需完善，因为它不能对文本结构、内容逻辑和连贯性进行适当的评估。因此，教师和学生都应该客观地看待 AWE 的分数。
