Specifically, the study explores whether the Grammar Checker supports more effectively the text production of high or average/low ability students in the framework of a differentiated teaching strategy (R.A.F.T.) as well as their beliefs towards the kind of support they received by the specific tool. Therefore, the goal of the current study is to investigate the role of digital tools and specifically of the grammar checking software (Neurolingo’s “Greek Grammar Checker”) in students’ linguistic/grammar competence during a differentiated teaching approach. Nowadays, in order for educators to support the students’ learning needs, teaching approaches utilizing digital tools and differentiation seem to be of particular educational importance. Grammar has always been a vital part of language teaching. Learner errors are indeed complicated for developers of grammar checkers, but the strong need for a functional grammar checker deserves CALL researchers' special attention. NTNU checker should reduce false alarms and indicate the locations of errors more accurately. The Microsoft ESL Assistant should expand its coverage to detect more learner errors. It seems clear that both checkers have room for improvement before they can provide satisfactory service to ESL learners. Moreover, these two checkers both could not deal with fragments and run-on sentences errors. Microsoft ESL Assistant could only deal with five types of errors. The test results showed that the NTNU statistical checker was far more sensitive to various learner errors, and it could detect eight types of selected errors. Ten common EFL errors selected from a large Chinese EFL learner corpus were used to test these two grammar checkers.
In this paper, we first introduce two new web-based grammar checkers (Microsoft ESL Assistant and NTNU statistical grammar checker) and then compare their performance.
As the Internet has become an important tool for language education, web-based grammar checkers have begun to emerge.
Few of these PC-based grammar checkers, however, are widely available to ESL learners. To help ESL teachers reduce their teaching load and to give students faster feedback, various English grammar checkers have been developed. Many ESL students need to improve writing skills to pass various language tests thus, writing teachers need to read many compositions and provide feedback.
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