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WRITE: Writing Revision Instrument for Teaching English
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WRITE: Writing Revision Instrument for Teaching English
Jia-Jiunn Lo1 , Ying-Chieh Wang1 and Shiou-Wen Yeh2 
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Department of Information Management, Chung-Hua University Taiwan, Republic of China |
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Department of Applied Linguistics and Language Studies, Chung-Yuan Christian, University, Taiwan, Republic of China |
Abstract
Corrective feedback and error correction are important tasks for ESL/EFL (English as a Second Language/English as a Foreign
Language) writing instruction. Research findings showed that students’ major difficulty in error correction lies in their
failure to detect errors. Also, researchers proposed that error analysis can be reinvented in the form of computer-aided error
analysis, a new type of computer corpus annotation. Annotations on digital documents can be easily shared among groups of
people, making them valuable for a wide variety of tasks, including providing feedback. This study developed a web-based online
corrective feedback and error analysis system called WRITE (Writing Revision Instrument for Teaching English). With this system,
teachers can make error corrections on digitized documents, on the general web browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer,
with online annotations in the same way as the traditional paper-based correction approach. The WRITE system can feedback
correct answers, teachers’ comments, and the grammatical error type for each error to students. In addition, this system can
provide users the annotation marks subject to different query conditions so that the problem of cognitive overload can be
avoided. For error analysis purposes, this system can access the database and analyzes students’ errors and displays the results
as requested. Students use WRITE will be able to effectively identify more errors. Moreover, the ways that the corrective
feedback delivered through the online annotation system can be used by students to develop his/her corrective strategies.
Keywords online annotation - error correction - error feedback - error analysis - computer assisted language learning (CALL) - writing instruction
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