Teacher Feedbacks and Its Effects on Students' Writing (original) (raw)
Learning to write in English involves a great amount of mental capacity and thus, often creates problems to students especially for nonnative speakers. For the nonnative speakers, besides having to deal with problems concerning the content they also have to master the grammar. Therefore, the students need a lot of assistance and feedback from their teachers especially in pointing out the errors that they make. However, some teachers feel that the feedbacks given to students do not benefit them and is a hopeless activity. This study therefore, will research on the effect of teacher's feedback on students' writing. The study is in the form of experimental research in which the students were given three essay titles to write. They wrote their essay in the class for 60 minutes and a week later their drafts were returned to them and they rewrote based on the feedback they received. Similar procedure was conducted with the other two essays. Each essay was given one of these feedback type; form feedback, content feedback or endnote feedback respectively. A score for content, organization, and language was given for each of the essays based on the analytic scale. The study found that even a minimal feedback given to students was helpful and provided a platform for the students to do self-revision which is one of the most effective lifelong learning process. Thus, prepared them for more writings in the future.
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