The Effects of Two Types of Direct Corrective Feedback on EFL University Students' Writing
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The present study investigated the effects of two types of direct corrective feedback (DCF) on writing by a group of Thai EFL learners. Twenty-five university students majoring in Languages, Communication, and Business at Prince of Songkla University, Surat Thani Campus participated in the pre, post- test designed investigation. The subjects were given a pre-test prior to attending a 13-week course on Paragraph Writing during which they were assigned to write a weekly narrative paragraph. Upon finishing each task, twelve of them received DCF with written meta-linguistic explanation (WME) and the rest received the DCF with oral meta-linguistic explanation (OME). A post- test was administered after the last session of the treatment. Scores of the pre and post tests were statistically analyzed to identify the percentage of correct usage of the two targeted grammatical features: regular past tense -ed, and fragment. Then the percentages of accurate scores between groups were compared. The results showed that the DCF with WME was as effective as the DCF with OME in reducing the errors of the two targeted linguistic forms.
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