THE INFLUENCE OF GRAMMARLY APPLICATION ON STUDENTS' GRAMMAR IN WRITING : A CASE STUDY IN SMA NEGERI 16 MAKASSAR

Fiona Afianty. 2024. The Influence Of Grammarly On Students' Grammar Understanding In Academic Writing: A Case Study In SMA Negeri 16 Makassar. (Supervised by Abidin Pammu and Hidayatullah Yunus). This study aims to find out how far Grammar.ly can help them in academic writing, and find out impact of using the Grammar.ly application in academic writing. The research method used in this study is qualitative study employing a case study approach. The results of this study show thatstudents at SMA Negeri 16 are not very interested in English. The existenceof Grammar.ly doesn't really affect them, most of them don't really care about grammar. This study explores students' perceived knowledge of usingthe Grammarly application and its features. Based on the findings that have been found, 22 out of 28 students in writing courses have used the Grammarly application in their academic writing. Students believe that it can be an excellent auto-correction tool for academic writing. The impact of Grammarly on SMA Negeri 16 students is that students feel more confident in doing their assignments. However, only a handful of students are interested in using Grammar.ly. Most students agree that the Grammarly application helps them in correcting their writing independently, namely 75% of students use Grammarly to help with writing assignments, students believe that Grammarly can minimize their writing errors. 60% Increase students' self-confidence. Schools should include mandatory standardization of lessons regarding the use of grammar in English xii language rules. This application must also be applied from elementary to middle school. So that at the high school level, students are no longer at a new level but are refreshing the grammar lessons they have learned at theprevious level.