| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Students, around the world, are under more pressure to produce academic papers that reflect a high level of grammatical accuracy. So, concerning the first achievement, "Online Grammar Checkers Versus Self-Editing: An Investigation of Error Correction Rates and Writing Quality," I examined the effectiveness of one online grammar checker (grammarly.com), and compared it to the effectiveness of self-editing. Four universities in Kyushu, Japan were involved, with 199 papers, which were collected over 2019. Ninety-nine essays were proofed by an online grammar checker. The study showed marginal differences between the two methods of proofing, but results indicate that online tools can be useful to identify certain grammatical errors. My second achievement entitled, "Characterizing Japanese Learners’ Written Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency Over a School Year," was presented in Zurich, Switzerland, and is now under review with the journal "Assessing Writing." Results showed that for the first aim, there was a significant difference between the groups; likewise, it was found that fluency did not significantly increase over time, whereas some syntactical complexity variables did show significant increases. The final three research questions, results showed significant differences. My third achievement concerned teachers' recommendations for writing programs while my fourth paper, entitled Characterizing the Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in Japanese L2 Writing, were presented at The 3rd IAFOR (The International Conference, and will be published in the proceedings.
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