Virtual Writing Tutor is a
website based tool for the English language learner, which is developed by an
English teacher named Nicholas Walker in Canada. He launched this website on 5th
April 2012. Today’s world teachers are getting so busy to involve the students
with different types of classroom activities and giving corrective feedback to
the students to improve the students quality on four skills(listening,
speaking, reading and writing) specially writing. In that case virtual writing
tutor made it easy for the teacher to measure students writing as well as it is
also helpful for the learner to check her/his writing with feedback. To get
this advantages from this website teacher or students need to paste the writing
in the box and click on “check grammar” button, after that he/she will get the
instant feedback with some relevant suggestion.
To check this I took a step with
a piece of writing of a student and find that the website give me instant
feedback with few links. But the fact is it missed to identify the mistakes specially
tense (go), preposition (for) in the sentences, while it only provides feedback
on capitalization, punctuation, verb agreement and uppercase letter error.
My students sample writing was “My favorite person is my little sister.
some days ago i go the shop for buying a pencil for my little sister, but
shopkeeper can not give me pencil. so i come back to my house without anything. but she never mind.”
Though it has few problems and
the website developer cited that he is working on it to improve its quality,
the website is helpful for the second language learner all over the world for
its instant feedback with correct words.
