Year: 2017
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The present article aims to provide an overview of the written corrective feedback types.It also presents the review of previous studies on the written corrective feedback as well as its effectiveness, especially in Indonesian setting.Written corrective feedback has been provided by the teachers to help the students to improve their L2 writing for decades.The teacher provides the feedback in many ways which include crossing out the errors with or without providing the correct form, targeting the grammatical errors, providing grammatical description of an error, and so on.However, not all of types of corrective feedback offer the same effectiveness.There has been a claim that direct corrective feedback enhances the students' writing accuracy, focused corrective feedback helps the students to acquire grammatical rules of targeted linguistic features, and metalinguistic corrective feedback assists the students to be aware of their errors in which turn to help them in revising their writing.Hence, this paper argues that the combination of direct, focused, metalinguistic corrective feedback can best benefit students' learning.The paper further suggests that the teacher provides the appropriate feedback for the students.Appropriate combination of feedbacks is particularly suggested in this paper.
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2790843077