INVESTIGATING EFL STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF GRAMMARLY PREMIUM AS AN AUTOMATIC WRITING EVALUATION IN THE ASPECTS OF WRITING: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY

Abstract

ABSTRACT : This study aimed to find out students’ perceptions of the use of Grammarly Premium as an automatic writing evaluation in the aspects of writing. The research design used narrative inquiry with purposive sampling techniques and the data were analyzed qualitatively. The participants are EFL students at the University of Islam Malang in the academic year 2018. The researcher took two participants who have experience with the use of Grammarly Premium and the researcher used an interview with semi-structured interview modes as the instrument. The findings showed that the two participants have positive perceptions such as giving useful feedback in order to check the tone of their content, giving paraphrase suggestions, also checking language, vocabulary, punctuation, and capitalization. Meanwhile, the negative perceptions cover errors and over-checking in terms of aspects of writing vocabulary and language.

 

Keywords : Grammarly Premium, Aspects of writing, Narratuve inquiry