The Use of Grammarly as a Grammar Online Checker For Students’ Thesis Writing

Akbar, Maulida Hasniah (2023) The Use of Grammarly as a Grammar Online Checker For Students’ Thesis Writing. Undergraduate (S1) thesis, IAIN Ponoroho.

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Abstract

Grammarly is one of the most popular programs which can be implemented in the writing class. According to claims, Grammarly is a simple tool that can assist schools and students with their writing by checking for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors. Additionally, it offers thorough and helpful feedback, including correction and suggestions, to improve the writing's clarity, accuracy, effectiveness, readability, lack of errors, and impact with a high rate of accuracy and evaluation speed. Grammarly as a tool to identify the students’ errors because this grammar checker is commonly used by the students in IAIN Ponorogo. Grammarly is a popular online grammar checking website today. Many students in schools and universities use this grammar checker to check the errors. Grammarly will help students identify their mistakes and receive feedback. Students can use it at anytime and anywhere. But the use of Grammarly as a medium for checking grammar is only as a helper, to check grammar the main thing is to still rely on the ability of the students themselves not necessarily directly and not only rely on Grammarly.
The objectives of this research are (1) To find out how are the students’ perception towards Grammarly as the media to check the grammar in their writing. (2) To find out what are the strengths and weaknesses of Grammarly as the media to check the grammar in their writing.
This research used mixed method which qualitative and quantitative are combined or mixed. Data collection was collected through questionnaire and interviews. The subject of this research was students’ at IAIN Ponorogo Academic Year 2016-2018. The data analysis used Statistical Program for Social Science (SPSS), data display and conclusions.
The result of this study, the researcher found that (1) The students’ perception towards the use of Grammarly had positive perception (84,3%) or “Strongly Agree”. (2) The strengths of Grammarly are can provide a straight suggestion so the author only needs to select revision at that point and the incorrect writing will immediately replace, easy to use, and had a simple features. For the weaknesses we should rechecked again and the writer must pay to access Grammarly’s premium, which are more extensive that the free edition.

Item Type: Thesis (Undergraduate (S1))
Thesis Supervisor: aries fitriani
Subjects: 13 EDUCATION > 1399 Other Education > 139999 Education not elsewhere classified
Divisions: Fakultas Ilmu Tarbiyah dan Keguruan > Jurusan Tadris Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: Mr Perpustakaan IAIN Ponorogo
Date Deposited: 11 Jul 2023 02:07
Last Modified: 11 Jul 2023 02:07
URI: http://etheses.iainponorogo.ac.id/id/eprint/25297

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