Strategies of Corrective Feedback via Email in Improving Iranian Students’ Writing Accuracy

The role of feedback has always been of importance in scientific debates. Corrective feedback in learning is of higher importance. There are different strategies of providing corrective feedback which are the aims of this current study. In addition, student writing in different contexts of ESL/EFL is of significance, too. The study attempted to investigate the provision of corrective feedback on student writing via new mediums of communication as Email and Microsoft Word software. 84 Iranian EFL students of higher intermediate levels took part in 4 groups of indirect feedback (IF), direct feedback (DF), indirect followed by direct with explicit corrective comments (IDECC), and no feedback (NF). Such groups were examined with respect to the impact of feedback each group received. Findings of this study are in support of the effectiveness of corrective feedback in student writing. According to the findings, all three treatment groups after two stages of revisions outperformed the control group. Among treatment groups, the IDECC which benefited the combination of other two strategies of providing feedback could gain the most effect in the new essay.

کلیدواژه ها:

corrective feedback ، indirect feedback ، direct feedback ، explicit corrective comments ، writing