TEACHERS’ CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK ON ENGLISH STUDENTS’ WRITING

Nguyen Thi Thanh Thao, Le Hai Duy

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This investigates the participants’ attitudes towards corrective feedback as well as the types of corrective feedback on learners’ performance by questionnaires for both students and teachers. Fifty–eight 2nd-year students and 5 teachers of English at a university in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam participated in the study. The results indicated that students had a positive attitude towards teachers’ corrective feedback. Besides, with the analyzed data, correction with comments and teacher correction was considered as the most useful strategy when giving feedback in the learners’ performance. The outcomes of the study suggest a widespread employment of corrective feedback in teaching writing at universities and colleges in the region. 

 

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.46827/ejel.v0i0.607

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