The Effects of Written Corrective Feedback Types on the Prepositions of Place and Time in EFL Context

Authors : Semih BEŞKARDEŞLER, Orhan KOCAMAN

Pages : 1-13

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Publication Date : 2019-03-28

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Written Corrective Feedback insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(WCF); has been a centre of a lively debate among English as a Foreign Language insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(EFL); and English as a Second Language insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(ESL); researchers and practitioners. For this motive, the present study sets out to examine the effects of WCF on the accuracy of the EFL students in second language insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(L2); writing. For this reason, a pre-test-post-test-delayed post-test design was used to compare the effects of direct-focused and direct-unfocused WCF on the accuracy of the prepositions of place and time: ‘-in, -at, -on and -to’. The students who were in the focused WCF group received direct correction on the errors related to the target structure only whereas the unfocused WCF group received direct correction on all of their errors insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(grammar, spelling and punctuation); including the target structure errors. In the post-test and delayed post-test, both experimental groups outperformed the control group, which received no correction. Between the focused WCF and unfocused WCF groups, on the other hand, no statistically significant difference was found in the short and long term. Thus, it was concluded that WCF, focused or unfocused, was helpful for the students to use the target structure more accurately. 
Keywords : Written corrective feedback, focused and unfocused written corrective feedback, error treatment, the prepositions of place and time, L2 writing