Iranian EFL High School Students’ Perceptions Regarding Written Grammar Feedback

Subject Areas : آموزش زبان انگلیسی

Mina Jodaie ¹

1 - Khosrowshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khosrowshah

Received: 2012-11-10 Accepted : 2014-05-04 Published : 2012-11-21

Keywords: Written corrective feedback, Comprehensive written grammar feedback, students’ perceptions  ,

Abstract :

This paper reports on a study thatinvestigated Iranian EFL high school students’ perceptions of written grammar feedback to specify their reasons for preferring comprehensive or selective feedback and choosing some feedback strategies. A questionnaire was administered to 100 EFL intermediate high school students who were selected based on their scores on a proficiency test. Moreover, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 of them.The results showed that the students had a strong desire for receiving written grammar feedback and favored direct feedback comprehensively on each draft. However, the correction of errors in word and verb categories was more important to them than that of other grammatical errors. They also had common evaluations of written corrective feedback strategies. The findings of this study have some implications for EFL writing instruction.

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