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The Importance Of Effective Feedback In Education

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Chaudron (1988) posits that corrective feedback may be message-focused or code-focused; it may be self- or other- initiated; corrective feedback may occur implicitly in the form of comprehension and confirmation checks, recasting and the like, or explicitly in the form of provision of the correct form by teacher, peer, or native interlocutor; it may be accompanied by an explanation, especially in the classroom setting. He further mentions that in the classroom setting more attention is apparently given to discourse and content errors than to either lexical, grammatical, or morphological errors.
The significance of feedback appeared with the development of learner-centered approaches to writing instruction in North American L1 composition classes …show more content…

Statement of the Problem
Writing is defined as an intricate skill including language, feelings, personal experiences, and communication of personal thoughts. In-college writing classes comprising natives and non-native students, and also those who teach freshman composition have always observed signs of frustration and discontent among students who have trouble communicating their thoughts and ideas on paper. Spratt and Leung (2000) also mentioned that writing in foreign language creates stress and tension.
Considering the traditional methods of teaching writing, the teachers simply read the compositions and correct the errors. Feedback in the writing class means the correction of students’ language errors. According to Chastain (1990), the graded papers are returned to the students, hoping that they would study the corrections in order to avoid repeating those errors in their future compositions (Chastain, 1990). As a result, what essentially attracts a student is not how the teacher has corrected or revised his/her paper, but only the mark he/she has been given. According to Tahririan &Mazdayasna (2001), rarely do the students ask the teacher to solve their writing problems. Consequently, the students hardly understand how or why they have made errors and therefore the same errors and problems will appear on the next writing. So what should we do to encourage and motivate students to develop and improve their writing …show more content…

Even though there has been a number of research dedicated to the effects of peer response, there has been few studies of teacher response and its effect on revision (Ferris, 1997). Leki (1990) proposed that there may be a properly large amount of information evaluating the type of teacher response in L1 writing; however, cases of feedback and consequent student action are rare (Leki 1990). Zamel (1985) mentioned that studies of teachers’ responses in the L2 setting are basically

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