Abu Qub'a Abdallah, Abu Guba Mohammed Nour, Fareh Shehdeh
King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia.
University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Heliyon. 2024 Jul 22;10(15):e34893. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e34893. eCollection 2024 Aug 15.
This study explores the extent to which Grammarly can be a reliable assessment tool for academic English writing. Ten articles published in high-status scholarly Q.1 journals and written by specialist English native speakers were used to evaluate the accuracy of Grammarly's flagged issues. The results showed that Grammarly tends to over-flag many issues resulting in many false positives; besides, it does not take into consideration optional usage in English. The study concluded that although Grammarly can identify many ambiguous instances of language use that writers would do well to review and consider for revision, it does not seem to be a reliable tool for assessing academic written English.
本研究探讨了Grammarly在多大程度上可作为学术英语写作的可靠评估工具。研究使用了十篇发表在高地位学术期刊上、由以英语为母语的专家撰写的文章，来评估Grammarly标记问题的准确性。结果表明，Grammarly往往会过度标记许多问题，导致出现许多误报；此外，它没有考虑到英语中的可选用法。该研究得出结论，尽管Grammarly能够识别出许多语言使用中的模糊情况，作者最好对其进行审查并考虑修改，但它似乎并不是评估学术书面英语的可靠工具。
