An Empirical Study on the Artificial Intelligence Writing Evaluation System in China CET

Abstract

The Artificial Intelligence Writing Evaluation system is widely used in China College English writing. It provides for both teachers and the English learners services of automated composition evaluation on the net in order that teacher's working load can be reduced and they can learn directly about the students' English writing level and that the students' English writing will be improved. Juku automated writing evaluation (AWE) is one of the most used systems among colleges and universities in China. The empirical study was conducted on the use of Juku AWE in college English teaching. Through the experiment with 114 students from 2 classes in Xi'an University and questionnaires and interview for both 30 teachers and 200 students using Juku AWE, the author finds that: (1) Using AWE does effectively help the students with their English writing; (2) Both teachers and students have positive attitude to the use of AWE in terms of immediate and clear feedback, time-saving, and arousing interests in English writing; and (3) AWE still needs to be perfected as it cannot provide proper evaluation on the text structure, content logic, and coherence. So both teachers and students should take the score from AWE objectively.