Sephia OKTAVIANI Pengarang Dr. Bahrani, M.Pd Dosen Pembimbing 1 Widya Noviana Noor, M.Pd Dosen Pembimbing 2 Rostanti Toba, M.Pd. Ketua Penguji Widya Noviana Noor, M.Pd Penguji 2 Dr. Bahrani, M.Pd Penguji 1

Sephia Oktaviani. 2022. Students’ Perception Towards the Use of Grammarly in English Writing Skill of fourth Semester English Education Department at UINSI Samarinda. Thesis, English Education Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, State Islamic University Sultan Aji Muhammad Idris Samarinda. This research is under the guidance of Mr. Dr. Bahrani, M. Pd as the first advisor and Mrs. Widya Noviana Noor, M. Pd as the second advisor. The background of this research is to know why Grammarly is widely used by English Education Department students at UINSI Samarinda as a tool to correct their errors, particularly grammatical errors in their writing. Meanwhile, the objectives of this research were: (1) to know the English Education Department students’ perception towards using Grammarly as an online grammar checker in writing skills. (2) to know the advantages and disadvantages of the use of Grammarly. This research used a descriptive qualitative method. The subject of this research was English students in the fourth semester of the academic year 2021/2022 at UINSI Samarinda. The data were collected using interview, questionnaire, and documentation. The findings of this research showed that the students had a positive belief or “Agree” with the use of Grammarly in writing skills. Grammarly was perceived as beneficial for students. It helps students for checking grammar errors, Grammarly's content includes grammar-related features such as grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style, and it provides both direct and indirect feedback. The advantages of Grammarly as an online grammar checker are that the feedback is Grammarly simple to understand, the features are simple, and it saves time. Meanwhile, Grammarly's disadvantages are it cannot detect what tenses students use at the time or in a paragraph, and students must pay if they want to access all of Grammarly's premium features.