Effect of Pigai.org on English Majors' Writing Self-efficacy and Writing Performance

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With the deepening of college English teaching reform, modern educational technology and network teaching platform are gradually applied to college English teaching. As to the English writing, using the automatic scoring system to automatically evaluate the students' composition has become a new trend. Pigai.org, as one of the many automatic scoring systems in China, has received great attention at home and abroad due to its advantages of timely feedback, high working efficiency and wide application. The thesis conducted a three-month English writing experiment to study the effect of Pigai.org. This experiment used 39 sophomores of English major as the research subject and adopted English writing self-efficacy questionnaires, English writing tests and interview as the research methods to further discusses the influence of Pigai.org on writing self-efficacy and writing achievement of the subjects, so as to effectively play the role of the Pigai.org in the teaching of English writing. The results of this research were as follows: firstly, the English writing self-efficacy and the English writing achievement of the subjects were improved after using Pigai.org by and large. Secondly, using Pigai.org had different influence on the self-efficacy and the writing achievement of students in different levels. The experimental results showed that the effect of Pigai.org on low-level students was more significant than that of high-level students.

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Li, Z., & Yan, D. (2020). Effect of Pigai.org on English Majors’ Writing Self-efficacy and Writing Performance. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 1533). Institute of Physics Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1533/4/042086

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