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Correcting tool or learning tool?

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: This paper reports on the initial data from an extension project that intends to further develop Marking Mate, a self-directed assignment writing support programme developed at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) by Eoin Jordan and Andy Snyder. The study explores how students currently use the programme and how they would like to see it being improved. In this paper, we explore the apparent tension between students wanting to use Marking Mate as a correction tool and its potential as a learning tool, with reference to the specific Chinese context of the university. An additional tension between a highly contextualised and locally developed programme (such as Marking Mate), and widely available online tools that allow for potentially similar outcomes (such as Grammarly), is also discussed. It is argued that the programme may be more effective if it is explicitly presented as a learning tool, rather than a correction tool.

Source: ASCILITE Publications

DOI: 10.14742/apubs.2016.839

Authors: Charlie Reis, Henk Huijser

Institutions: University of Liverpool, Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education

Language: English

Topic: English Language Learning and Teaching

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4399134079

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Cites: 11

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