Exploring the impact of using automated writing evaluation in English as a foreign language university students' writing

Computer Assisted Language Learning

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 234-257

  Wang, Ying Jian ^a   Shang, Hui Fang ^a   Briody, Paul ^a  

^a I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

accuracy; automated writing evaluation (AWE); EFL writing; interaction; learner autonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879056630     PISSN: 09588221     EISSN: 17443210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09588221.2012.655300     Document Type: Article

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