ERIC Number: EJ1218479
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-1925-0746
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The Effect of Teacher Feedback on the Simple Past Tense Acquisition in Senior High School Students' English Writing
Zhong, Qin; Yan, Minwei; Zou, Fangfang
World Journal of Education, v9 n3 p30-37 2019
Teacher feedback is an essential part which can not be overlooked in English writing teaching. Whether teacher feedback is effective and which type of feedback is more effective in improving learners' writing proficiency have attracted more and more researchers' attention. Direct feedback is the feedback that teachers correct students' errors directly under the form or the right using habit of target language. Indirect feedback is the feedback that teachers only mark out or point out students' errors but not correct errors. This study explores the effects of two different kinds of feedback (direct feedback and indirect feedback) on the acquisition of English simple past tense in high school students' writing. And it attempts to answer the following three questions: 1) Do teachers' direct and indirect feedback in English writing influence senior high school students' acquisition of simple past tense? 2) If so, which kind of feedback (direct or indirect feedback) has the greater influence on improving students' acquisition of simple past tense in English writing? 3) What perceptions do students have towards teachers' direct and indirect feedback in English writing? The result showed that the two kinds of feedback have an influence on the acquisition of the target structure, however, there is no significant difference between direct and indirect feedback group, which states that indirect feedback class was not better than direct feedback class.
Descriptors: Morphemes, Feedback (Response), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition), Student Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, Error Correction, High School Students, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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