The Effects Of Different Types Of Written Corrective Feedback On The Accuracy Of Junior High School Students' English Writin

As an expressive skill,English writing is essential in English teaching.But the result of English writing teaching in junior high schools in China is still unsatisfactory at present.How to improve student’s English writing accuracy has always been a hot topic among researchers and educators.Written corrective feedback is the main way for teachers to evaluate student’s writing,and it is helpful to improve their writing accuracy.With further research,some scholars(Ferris 1999;Ashwell 2000;Roberts 2001)believed that feedback has a positive effect.But the scholars have not yet given consistent answers to some questions.For example,which type of feedback is better for the writing accuracy of students,what are the differences between different types of feedback in the writing accuracy of students at different levels,and what are the differences in correcting different types of errors.In addition,most previous studies focused on senior high school students and those college students who majoring in English,while junior high school students were rarely concerned.Therefore,based on the Output Hypothesis,the Noticing Hypothesis,and the Interaction Hypothesis,this study chooses direct and indirect corrective feedback and discusses the effect of two types of feedback on the English writing accuracy of junior high school students.The purpose of this study is to solve the following questions:(1)Can direct and indirect corrective feedback improve the English writing language accuracy of junior high school students? If so,which form is more effective?(2)What are the differences between direct and indirect corrective feedback in the English writing language accuracy of students at different language levels(high,middle and low levels)?(3)What are the differences between direct and indirect corrective feedback in correcting different types of errors(verb,noun endings,wrong word and sentence structure)?To respond to the above research questions,the researcher conducted a 13-week teaching experiment in a middle school in Lingcheng,Dezhou,taking 90 students from Class 3,Class 4and Class 5 of Grade 1 as the research objects.Class 3 and Class 4 are the experimental groups and Class 5 is the control group.The students in experimental groups were further divided into high-level,middle-level and low-level groups,and they received direct and indirect feedback respectively,while the students in control group only scored and they got no feedback.The students were required to complete six writings.The researcher collected data through the teaching experiment and used SPSS 26.0 to make data analysis.The study finds:(1)Both direct and indirect corrective feedback can improve the English writing language accuracy of junior high school students.By comparison,direct feedback is more effective.(2)Both direct and indirect corrective feedback can improve the English writing language accuracy of students at different levels.By comparison,direct feedback has a better effect on middle-level and low-level students,while indirect feedback has a better effect on high-level students.(3)Both direct and indirect corrective feedback are beneficial to correct wrong words and sentence structure errors,but neither is conducive to correct noun ending errors.Direct feedback is good for correcting verb errors,while indirect feedback is not.Based on the above findings,in English writing teaching,teachers should attract students’ attention to mistakes to the greatest extent,interact with students actively and help them to correct mistakes.At the same time,teachers should consider the individual differences of students when giving feedback,and provide right feedback for students depending on the different types of errors.Besides,because of the limitations of this experiment,some suggestions for future research are proposed.First,extend the experimental period.Second,enlarge the sample size.Finally,discuss the effect of other feedback on English writing accuracy.