Original Research
Should Feedback be Direct or Indirect? Comparing the Effectiveness of Different Types of WCF on L1 Arabic Writers’ Use of English Prepositions
- Abstract
- Full text
- Metrics
This study investigated the effects of direct and indirect WCF on students’ revision accuracy as well as on new pieces of writing over time. Intermediate level pre-faculty university students were divided randomly into four groups: direct, underlining only, underlining metalinguistic, and a control group. They produced two texts from two different picture prompts and revised these over a two-week period. They also produced two new texts three and four weeks after the last treatment. Both WCF significantly reduced learner errors in subsequent revision tasks. All three treatment groups also made significant reduction of errors after 3 weeks of CF treatment.
Page 1 of
Download Count : 396
Visit Count : 1665
Keywords
Direct and indirect feedback; Written corrective feedback; Comprehensive corrective feedback; Focused feedback; Unfocused feedback
Author(s) Information
Acknowledgments
Not applicable.
Funding
Not applicable.
Conflict of Interests
No, there are no conflicting interests.
Open Access
This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. You may view a copy of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/