Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners’ Opinions About Written Corrective Feedback: Impacts on the Perception and Production of Present Perfect and Past Perfect Tenses

Subject Areas : Journal of Language, Culture, and Translation

Shahyad Mohammadnia-Afruzi ¹ , Behrang Mohammad-Salehi ²

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Received: 2024-05-07 Accepted : 2024-09-15 Published : 2024-09-15

Keywords: Direct Feedback, Indirect Feedback, Metalinguistic Feedback, Revision, Written Corrective Feedback,

Abstract :

The present study aims to investigate Iranian intermediate EFL learners’ attitudes towards three types of written corrective feedback (WCF) (direct, indirect and metalinguistic +/– revision) on perception and production of present/past perfect tenses. Two-hundred and ten participants were randomly assigned to six experimental groups and one control group based on Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT). Regarding different types of feedback +/– revision, two tenses were presented to each experimental group. Next, a pretest-posttest design was applied. A questionnaire containing two parts were administered to the learners in these groups. Then, the statistical procedure of analysis of variance (ANOVA) was conducted to compare students' perceptions regarding feedback provision. Based on the results obtained from the questionnaire it was shown that the six groups receiving +/– revision feedback had positive attitudes towards feedback provision. The findings of this study might come in handy for helping students improve their writing quality and particularly use feedback as a facilitating technique in acquiring tenses in English.

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