A Study of Written Corrective Feedback and Its Effect on Chinese Junior Learners＇ English Writing

• 作者: ZHANG Hong-wu
• 来源期刊: 中美英语教学：英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: WRITTEN CORRECTIVE feedback accuracy JUNIOR learners WRITING
• 年，卷（期）: 2017,（7）
• 页码范围: 403-413
• 页数: 11页
• 分类号: H319

摘要

This study was designed to investigate the effect of written corrective feedback （WCF） on junior English learners＇writing. Eighty-two Chinese junior students from two classes were observed in a draft-to-draft writing program.Results included error distribution and WCF＇s effect on the subjects＇ writing. Specifically, the number of localerrors dropped more significantly than that of global errors. Both direct feedback （DF） and indirect feedback （IF）worked for local errors, but they did not have noticeable effects on global errors. For some errors as wrong word,DF was almost helpless in eliminating them, but IF worked better since it could engage students in reflecting ontheir own errors. For Chinglish and word order errors, however, IF＇s role was very limited in revision andcorrection, due to students＇ inefficient syntactic knowledge. This study indicated that WCF had varying effects fordifferent types of errors and a combination of DF and IF might be more helpful. In addition, positive input andcertain amount of explicit grammar teaching are necessary for long-term improvement of accuracy in writing.