ERIC Number: EJ1284550
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 30
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ISSN: ISSN-2630-0672
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Effects of Direct and Indirect Written Corrective Feedback on Bhutanese Learners' Grammatical Accuracy over Time
Sherpa, Sonam Zangpo
LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, v14 n1 p574-603 Jan-Jun 2021
This study investigated the effect of direct and indirect written corrective feedback (WCF) on the grammatical accuracy in the use of past tense and articles by grade eight learners (n = 45). The study also explored the extent to which the use of WCF may affect the syntactic complexity in the learners' writing. The learners were selected and purposively divided into three levels of English language proficiency (high, average, and low), from which they were randomly assigned into two treatment groups and one control group. Participants wrote narrative essays on a given topic, each for the pretest, followed by three treatment sessions, posttest, and delayed posttest. One treatment group received direct WCF while the other received indirect WCF. The control group did not receive WCF. The findings of this experiment show that the indirect WCF group (M = 75.26, SD = 12.83) outperformed the direct WCF group (M = 60.98, SD = 13.14) and the control group (M = 56.64, SD = 20.42) significantly on the grammatical accuracy measures taken at posttest. It was found that WCF did not affect the syntactic complexity of the learners' writing. It is surmised that a sustained and extensive use of indirect WCF may improve Bhutanese learners' written grammatical accuracy.
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Feedback (Response), Error Correction, Revision (Written Composition), Writing Evaluation, Grammar, Accuracy, Time Factors (Learning), Difficulty Level, Syntax, Morphemes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Public Schools, Boarding Schools, Middle School Students, Adolescents, Grade 8, Foreign Countries
Language Institute of Thammasat University. The Prachan Campus, 2 Prachan Road, Bangkok 10200 Thailand. e-mail: learnjournal@gmail.com; Web site: https://www.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/learn
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Elementary Education; Grade 8
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Bhutan
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