Written feedback in English writing classes serves as the primary mode of feedback.By comparing direct corrective feedback and indirect corrective feedback in addressing content and form,this paper argues that indirec...Written feedback in English writing classes serves as the primary mode of feedback.By comparing direct corrective feedback and indirect corrective feedback in addressing content and form,this paper argues that indirect corrective feedback better aligns with the needs of English majors.Multiple factors influence the choice of written feedback methods,and teachers should carefully select the most appropriate approach based on student characteristics to maximize the effectiveness of feedback.展开更多
This study explores the washback effect that automated essay scoring has on undergraduates of China.The main purpose of this study is to explore the effect that the automated essay scoring has on the writing ability o...This study explores the washback effect that automated essay scoring has on undergraduates of China.The main purpose of this study is to explore the effect that the automated essay scoring has on the writing ability of undergraduates.There are some significant differences in scores of composition between the experimental group and the control group.It is found that the holistic scores of the experimental group are higher than those of the control group.Some striking differences are found in syntactic fluency and complexity.It is found that the experimental group is more complex in syntactic fluency and complexity than the control group.The research indicates that,under the proper guidance of teachers,the AES can effectively improve the writing scores of undergraduates.展开更多
With the increasing number of college students enrollment,non-English major students have paid much attention to error correction and peer feedback on writing.This article sheds some light on the benefits and implicat...With the increasing number of college students enrollment,non-English major students have paid much attention to error correction and peer feedback on writing.This article sheds some light on the benefits and implication of peer feedback on college English teaching.展开更多
Since the result of effect comparison is important for teacher's decision making,roles teacher feedback and peer review play respectively and collaboratively in tertiary-level EFL writing context should be address...Since the result of effect comparison is important for teacher's decision making,roles teacher feedback and peer review play respectively and collaboratively in tertiary-level EFL writing context should be addressed via quantitative study as this paper proposed.Quantitative data should be collected from students'first drafts,second drafts and written comments from teachers and peers.Gains for overall scores between the first and second drafts and correlation between suggestions and gains should be examined.展开更多
The study constructed a multi-dimensional feedback mode integrating teacher feedback, peer feedback and network feedback, and applied it in the teaching of College English Writing. After 16 weeks of teaching, the stud...The study constructed a multi-dimensional feedback mode integrating teacher feedback, peer feedback and network feedback, and applied it in the teaching of College English Writing. After 16 weeks of teaching, the students in the multi-dimen-sional feedback class had significantly better overall writing scores than those in the teacher-feedback class. In terms of individual scores, multi-dimensional feedback played a better role in improving vocabulary and grammar than the class using teacher feed-back. However, there were no significant differences in the responses of writing tasks, coherence and cohesion. The study showed that most students were satisfied with the mode, believing that it was helpful to relieve writing anxiety, stimulate writing interest and improve their writing level.展开更多
Peer feedback is an indispensable part in process writing. However, in college English class, students pay less attention to peer feedback than teachers' feedback. What's more, without teachers' guidance, ...Peer feedback is an indispensable part in process writing. However, in college English class, students pay less attention to peer feedback than teachers' feedback. What's more, without teachers' guidance, most of students don't know how to give feedbacks and what feedbacks should be given. Therefore, some strategies should be used to help students to make more effective feedbacks and stimulate students' interest to actively learn from their peers.展开更多
Based on the students' capability of assessing peers' essays, this paper attempts to analyze the effectiveness of peer feed-back in EFL writing. Significant improvements can be made in writing proficiency, esp...Based on the students' capability of assessing peers' essays, this paper attempts to analyze the effectiveness of peer feed-back in EFL writing. Significant improvements can be made in writing proficiency, especially for the students who review others' essays. The reviewers may not only improve their peer's papers but also improve general writing skills and learn to self-evaluatetheir own writing.展开更多
1. IntroductionThe National Matriculation English Test (NMET) in China is knownas a high- stakes examination as it is the criterion for admission intohigher education. This influential examination has two main functions:
Set at the interface between second language acquisition and second language writing,this study examines how different types of written corrective feedback(WCF)influence the writing accuracy of Chinese college student...Set at the interface between second language acquisition and second language writing,this study examines how different types of written corrective feedback(WCF)influence the writing accuracy of Chinese college students learning English as a Foreign Language(EFL)and whether WCF facilitates the students’grasp of the focused linguistic knowledge.The participants(n=60)were divided into direct correction group(n=20),indirect error-coding group(n=20)and metalinguistic explanation group(n=20).The three groups wrote four essays in two months and received WCF for the first three essays on the five targeted error types,namely tense errors,confusion of different forms of a word,word(articles,prepositions,etc.)missing,errors in subjectverb agreement and inappropriate verb-noun collocations.The results show that all three types of WCF improved students’writing accuracy but none of them had any statistical advantage,and the metalinguistic WCF was more effective than the other two forms in facilitating the acquisition of the targeted linguistic features.These results shed some light on teaching and consolidation of language points through writing in EFL contexts.展开更多
Giving effective feedback is one of useful methods to improve students' writing.With the aim of offering students more effective feedback,this essay will discuss the new kind of feedback on student writing by intr...Giving effective feedback is one of useful methods to improve students' writing.With the aim of offering students more effective feedback,this essay will discuss the new kind of feedback on student writing by introducing the features of the new approach and evaluating it in Chinese teaching context.According to the study,it is recommended peer feedback and teacher-student conferencing feedback should be implemented in the Chinese classrooms,and the teachers of writing should vary their types of feedback according to students' specific needs.展开更多
Among the many possible ways to assessing writing by giving feedbacks, the peer evaluation method is viewed as a relatively effective one for students. Traditional one-way teacher feedback with which the teachers usua...Among the many possible ways to assessing writing by giving feedbacks, the peer evaluation method is viewed as a relatively effective one for students. Traditional one-way teacher feedback with which the teachers usually make great efforts to mark out all errors had been proved to be unscientific. In this article, based on the specific situation in two English major classes in Wenhua Institute attached to HUST, a series of training and experiments were designed with the aim of proving the effect of peer evaluation in writing class. It is emphasized that language teachers should recognize the practical value of peer evaluation, and try to help students be involved in making peer responses in the writing process actively, so that students can get meaningful experience from evaluating their peers＇ writing, which, in turn, will enhance their own ability to produce more satisfactory essays.展开更多
This article is an empirical study on the washback of the writing section （i.e. writing subtest as in this paper） of College English Test Band Four （CET-4） on ELT in Chinese colleges and universities so as to prom...This article is an empirical study on the washback of the writing section （i.e. writing subtest as in this paper） of College English Test Band Four （CET-4） on ELT in Chinese colleges and universities so as to promote the positive effects and diminish the negative ones. The study collected data from 181 college English learners, nine college English teachers and two CET-4 raters through interview, observation and documentary analysis. Findings indicate that CET-4 writing subtest produces more negative impacts than positive ones. Moreover, the findings also indicate that the washback of CET-4 writing is weakened by other sections of the test.展开更多
The study aims to uncover the differences between a Chinese writing teacher and a foreign writing teacher in evaluating Chinese college students' English compositions and find out students' attitudes towards d...The study aims to uncover the differences between a Chinese writing teacher and a foreign writing teacher in evaluating Chinese college students' English compositions and find out students' attitudes towards different kinds of feedbacks. The data collection method, sample analysis and questionnaire have been implemented to probe for the results. The results are supposed to give some suggestions to the English writing class in Chinese universities.展开更多
Some researchers view the teacher written feedback as an effective method in the recursive process of students revising their writing drafts and teachers responding to them in terms of language use,content and linguis...Some researchers view the teacher written feedback as an effective method in the recursive process of students revising their writing drafts and teachers responding to them in terms of language use,content and linguistic knowledge,while others argue its impact on the learners may be less than what teachers would expect.The point to the different opinion is that neither of them takes students’English proficiency and their characteristics of learning English into consideration which may influence students’response to the teacher written feedback differently.展开更多
This essay mainly focuses on the feedback move in IRF(initiate- response- feedback) to investigate the characters and functions of teacher feedback in different class types through classroom observation. The research ...This essay mainly focuses on the feedback move in IRF(initiate- response- feedback) to investigate the characters and functions of teacher feedback in different class types through classroom observation. The research finds that(1) teachers in different class types prefer to adopt evaluative feedback and use more positive feedback.(2) the proportion of each feedback is different in listening and speaking, reading and writing class. The implications are that English teachers in senior high school should adopt different feedback flexibly and consider what kind of feedback is more likely elicit the students' output in different class types.展开更多
Feedback plays a central role in writing development. However correcting students' writing is one of the most timeconsuming tasks for our senior English teachers. By conducting a survey of direct feedback and indi...Feedback plays a central role in writing development. However correcting students' writing is one of the most timeconsuming tasks for our senior English teachers. By conducting a survey of direct feedback and indirect feedback in students writing the author tries to test the influence of direct feedback and indirect feedback in graduates' writing.展开更多
The types of teachers’ written feedback and their effects have been the focuses of researches on feedback in EFL writing. This paper aims at providing some references and suggestions on the effective feedback types i...The types of teachers’ written feedback and their effects have been the focuses of researches on feedback in EFL writing. This paper aims at providing some references and suggestions on the effective feedback types in EFL writing in China through reviewing the recent ten-year researches on teachers’ written feedback in EFL writing in China from the perspectives of feedback source, content, types and comments, and exploring the future development of the researches from research design, feedback types, and research perspectives and so on.Literature research shows that the answers remain controversial on which kind of feedback source, feedback content, feedback type, and feedback comments are the best to students in EFL writing. However, the supplementary roles of peer feedback and electronic feedback are well recognized; form-focused feedback combined with content-focused feedback is popular with the students; the demand for the degree of feedback directness and feedback comments varies with the level of students. Compared to the past, recent domestic researches on teachers’ feedback are more various in research methods, more diversified in research perspectives and extended more in research content. Future domestic research on teachers’ feedback needs to make efforts on designing the experiment, expanding the feedback content, combining different feedback types and broadening research perspectives in order to further verify the effectiveness of teachers’ written feedback.展开更多
This study was designed to investigate the effect of written corrective feedback （WCF） on junior English learners＇writing. Eighty-two Chinese junior students from two classes were observed in a draft-to-draft writi...This study was designed to investigate the effect of written corrective feedback （WCF） on junior English learners＇writing. Eighty-two Chinese junior students from two classes were observed in a draft-to-draft writing program.Results included error distribution and WCF＇s effect on the subjects＇ writing. Specifically, the number of localerrors dropped more significantly than that of global errors. Both direct feedback （DF） and indirect feedback （IF）worked for local errors, but they did not have noticeable effects on global errors. For some errors as wrong word,DF was almost helpless in eliminating them, but IF worked better since it could engage students in reflecting ontheir own errors. For Chinglish and word order errors, however, IF＇s role was very limited in revision andcorrection, due to students＇ inefficient syntactic knowledge. This study indicated that WCF had varying effects fordifferent types of errors and a combination of DF and IF might be more helpful. In addition, positive input andcertain amount of explicit grammar teaching are necessary for long-term improvement of accuracy in writing.展开更多
文摘Written feedback in English writing classes serves as the primary mode of feedback.By comparing direct corrective feedback and indirect corrective feedback in addressing content and form,this paper argues that indirect corrective feedback better aligns with the needs of English majors.Multiple factors influence the choice of written feedback methods,and teachers should carefully select the most appropriate approach based on student characteristics to maximize the effectiveness of feedback.
文摘This study explores the washback effect that automated essay scoring has on undergraduates of China.The main purpose of this study is to explore the effect that the automated essay scoring has on the writing ability of undergraduates.There are some significant differences in scores of composition between the experimental group and the control group.It is found that the holistic scores of the experimental group are higher than those of the control group.Some striking differences are found in syntactic fluency and complexity.It is found that the experimental group is more complex in syntactic fluency and complexity than the control group.The research indicates that,under the proper guidance of teachers,the AES can effectively improve the writing scores of undergraduates.
文摘With the increasing number of college students enrollment,non-English major students have paid much attention to error correction and peer feedback on writing.This article sheds some light on the benefits and implication of peer feedback on college English teaching.
文摘Since the result of effect comparison is important for teacher's decision making,roles teacher feedback and peer review play respectively and collaboratively in tertiary-level EFL writing context should be addressed via quantitative study as this paper proposed.Quantitative data should be collected from students'first drafts,second drafts and written comments from teachers and peers.Gains for overall scores between the first and second drafts and correlation between suggestions and gains should be examined.
文摘The study constructed a multi-dimensional feedback mode integrating teacher feedback, peer feedback and network feedback, and applied it in the teaching of College English Writing. After 16 weeks of teaching, the students in the multi-dimen-sional feedback class had significantly better overall writing scores than those in the teacher-feedback class. In terms of individual scores, multi-dimensional feedback played a better role in improving vocabulary and grammar than the class using teacher feed-back. However, there were no significant differences in the responses of writing tasks, coherence and cohesion. The study showed that most students were satisfied with the mode, believing that it was helpful to relieve writing anxiety, stimulate writing interest and improve their writing level.
文摘Peer feedback is an indispensable part in process writing. However, in college English class, students pay less attention to peer feedback than teachers' feedback. What's more, without teachers' guidance, most of students don't know how to give feedbacks and what feedbacks should be given. Therefore, some strategies should be used to help students to make more effective feedbacks and stimulate students' interest to actively learn from their peers.
文摘Based on the students' capability of assessing peers' essays, this paper attempts to analyze the effectiveness of peer feed-back in EFL writing. Significant improvements can be made in writing proficiency, especially for the students who review others' essays. The reviewers may not only improve their peer's papers but also improve general writing skills and learn to self-evaluatetheir own writing.
文摘1. IntroductionThe National Matriculation English Test (NMET) in China is knownas a high- stakes examination as it is the criterion for admission intohigher education. This influential examination has two main functions:
文摘Set at the interface between second language acquisition and second language writing,this study examines how different types of written corrective feedback(WCF)influence the writing accuracy of Chinese college students learning English as a Foreign Language(EFL)and whether WCF facilitates the students’grasp of the focused linguistic knowledge.The participants(n=60)were divided into direct correction group(n=20),indirect error-coding group(n=20)and metalinguistic explanation group(n=20).The three groups wrote four essays in two months and received WCF for the first three essays on the five targeted error types,namely tense errors,confusion of different forms of a word,word(articles,prepositions,etc.)missing,errors in subjectverb agreement and inappropriate verb-noun collocations.The results show that all three types of WCF improved students’writing accuracy but none of them had any statistical advantage,and the metalinguistic WCF was more effective than the other two forms in facilitating the acquisition of the targeted linguistic features.These results shed some light on teaching and consolidation of language points through writing in EFL contexts.
文摘Giving effective feedback is one of useful methods to improve students' writing.With the aim of offering students more effective feedback,this essay will discuss the new kind of feedback on student writing by introducing the features of the new approach and evaluating it in Chinese teaching context.According to the study,it is recommended peer feedback and teacher-student conferencing feedback should be implemented in the Chinese classrooms,and the teachers of writing should vary their types of feedback according to students' specific needs.
文摘Among the many possible ways to assessing writing by giving feedbacks, the peer evaluation method is viewed as a relatively effective one for students. Traditional one-way teacher feedback with which the teachers usually make great efforts to mark out all errors had been proved to be unscientific. In this article, based on the specific situation in two English major classes in Wenhua Institute attached to HUST, a series of training and experiments were designed with the aim of proving the effect of peer evaluation in writing class. It is emphasized that language teachers should recognize the practical value of peer evaluation, and try to help students be involved in making peer responses in the writing process actively, so that students can get meaningful experience from evaluating their peers＇ writing, which, in turn, will enhance their own ability to produce more satisfactory essays.
文摘This article is an empirical study on the washback of the writing section （i.e. writing subtest as in this paper） of College English Test Band Four （CET-4） on ELT in Chinese colleges and universities so as to promote the positive effects and diminish the negative ones. The study collected data from 181 college English learners, nine college English teachers and two CET-4 raters through interview, observation and documentary analysis. Findings indicate that CET-4 writing subtest produces more negative impacts than positive ones. Moreover, the findings also indicate that the washback of CET-4 writing is weakened by other sections of the test.
文摘The study aims to uncover the differences between a Chinese writing teacher and a foreign writing teacher in evaluating Chinese college students' English compositions and find out students' attitudes towards different kinds of feedbacks. The data collection method, sample analysis and questionnaire have been implemented to probe for the results. The results are supposed to give some suggestions to the English writing class in Chinese universities.
文摘Some researchers view the teacher written feedback as an effective method in the recursive process of students revising their writing drafts and teachers responding to them in terms of language use,content and linguistic knowledge,while others argue its impact on the learners may be less than what teachers would expect.The point to the different opinion is that neither of them takes students’English proficiency and their characteristics of learning English into consideration which may influence students’response to the teacher written feedback differently.
文摘This essay mainly focuses on the feedback move in IRF(initiate- response- feedback) to investigate the characters and functions of teacher feedback in different class types through classroom observation. The research finds that(1) teachers in different class types prefer to adopt evaluative feedback and use more positive feedback.(2) the proportion of each feedback is different in listening and speaking, reading and writing class. The implications are that English teachers in senior high school should adopt different feedback flexibly and consider what kind of feedback is more likely elicit the students' output in different class types.
文摘Feedback plays a central role in writing development. However correcting students' writing is one of the most timeconsuming tasks for our senior English teachers. By conducting a survey of direct feedback and indirect feedback in students writing the author tries to test the influence of direct feedback and indirect feedback in graduates' writing.
文摘The types of teachers’ written feedback and their effects have been the focuses of researches on feedback in EFL writing. This paper aims at providing some references and suggestions on the effective feedback types in EFL writing in China through reviewing the recent ten-year researches on teachers’ written feedback in EFL writing in China from the perspectives of feedback source, content, types and comments, and exploring the future development of the researches from research design, feedback types, and research perspectives and so on.Literature research shows that the answers remain controversial on which kind of feedback source, feedback content, feedback type, and feedback comments are the best to students in EFL writing. However, the supplementary roles of peer feedback and electronic feedback are well recognized; form-focused feedback combined with content-focused feedback is popular with the students; the demand for the degree of feedback directness and feedback comments varies with the level of students. Compared to the past, recent domestic researches on teachers’ feedback are more various in research methods, more diversified in research perspectives and extended more in research content. Future domestic research on teachers’ feedback needs to make efforts on designing the experiment, expanding the feedback content, combining different feedback types and broadening research perspectives in order to further verify the effectiveness of teachers’ written feedback.
文摘This study was designed to investigate the effect of written corrective feedback （WCF） on junior English learners＇writing. Eighty-two Chinese junior students from two classes were observed in a draft-to-draft writing program.Results included error distribution and WCF＇s effect on the subjects＇ writing. Specifically, the number of localerrors dropped more significantly than that of global errors. Both direct feedback （DF） and indirect feedback （IF）worked for local errors, but they did not have noticeable effects on global errors. For some errors as wrong word,DF was almost helpless in eliminating them, but IF worked better since it could engage students in reflecting ontheir own errors. For Chinglish and word order errors, however, IF＇s role was very limited in revision andcorrection, due to students＇ inefficient syntactic knowledge. This study indicated that WCF had varying effects fordifferent types of errors and a combination of DF and IF might be more helpful. In addition, positive input andcertain amount of explicit grammar teaching are necessary for long-term improvement of accuracy in writing.
