The effects of teacher and peer corrective feedback on the grammatical accuracy in writing among the L2 learners
Corrective feedback (CF) is a common practice in education field, where a learner obtains comments from a teacher or peer on any task that he or she has done. The purpose of CF is to provide learners with the message of their incorrect usage of the target language. This preliminary paper sought to i...
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2015
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/7460/ http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/7460/4/155.pdf |
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| Summary: | Corrective feedback (CF) is a common practice in
education field, where a learner obtains comments from a
teacher or peer on any task that he or she has done. The
purpose of CF is to provide learners with the message of their
incorrect usage of the target language. This preliminary paper
sought to investigate the effects of two types of CF on the
grammatical accuracy in L2 learners' writing namely; teacher
feedback and peer feedback. Their effects on grammatical
accuracy in learners' writing were observed on 64 form six
students of one secondary school in Skudai, Johor. The heavy
focus on the grammatical accuraey was due to the importance
of grammar in the Malaysian University English Test (WET)
that the students are required to take before finishing the high
school. Such test as well will be the ticket for them to further
their studies at higher institutions. In this study, pre-test and
post-test were carried out to the experimental and control
group. The data collected were analysed using descriptive and
inferential statistics. The findings showed that both types of
feedback had positive effects on the students' performance in
L2 writing. However, students who received teacher feedback
only outperformed those who received both types of feedback
with a slightly better margin of improvement of 22.59 as
opposed to 19.19 respectively. Some pedagogical implications
for the teachers are also included in this paper which can serve as basic guidelines in providing CF to the students. |
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