Written corrective feedback (WCF) is widely used to point students to the grammatical errors in their written work and help reduce them. This paper reports a quasi-experimental study that compared the effectiveness of direct and indirect teacher WCF in a Thai context. One hundred and twenty Thai students at two public universities in southern Thailand were assigned to write argumentative essays within a treatment period; each treatment had 60 students. The feedback was given by four ESL/EFL lecturers at the two universities. Grammatical aspects focused on were tenses, subject-verb agreement, articles, singular/plural nouns, prepositions and adjectives/adverbs. Means for the number of errors were obtained at three points, namely, pretest, immediate posttest and delayed posttest. The findings revealed that time and WCF type as main effects showed differentiated results on all six grammatical aspects. Interaction effects between time and WCF were found for tenses and subject-verb agreement. For between-subjects effects, indirect WCF was more effective than direct WCF. For within-subjects effects, generally the differences in the mean values were significant between pretest and delayed posttest, but not between pretest and immediate posttest. These findings have implications for writing instruction and research in an ESL/EFL tertiary context.
목차
Abstract Introduction Literature Review Methodology Sampling and Participants Treatment Research Instruments Training of Teacher Participants Data Collection and Analysis Results and Discussion Interaction Effects Main Effect of Time Main Effect of WCF Type Conclusion The Authors References
키워드
direct and indirect written corrective feedbackEFLgrammatical errorswriting instruction
저자
Kok Eng Tan [ Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia ]
Apinya Manochphinyo [ Prince of Songkla University, Trang Campus, Thailand ]
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The Journal of AsiaTEFL
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1738-3102
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2466-1511
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2004~2026
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SCOPUS,KCI 등재
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KDC 740DDC 420
이 권호 내 다른 논문 / The Journal of AsiaTEFL vol.14 no.3