Outline (Salience of Feedback on Error and Its Effect on EFL Writing Quality) 3

Ⅰ.What method is good for providing feedback on written error of second language writers?

 

Ⅱ. To date, few empirical studies have been designed to evaluate the effects of different types of feedback on error in the written work of second language writers.

A.How to give to the treatment of error in the written work of second language learners

1. Process
2. Indiscriminate feedback
3. Systematic approach

 

Ⅲ. Method

1. The second language writers were divided into four groups for this research.
2. The correction group
3. The coded feedback group
4. The uncoded feedback group
5. The marginal feedback group

 

Ⅳ. Results

1. The accuracy measures
2. The fluency measures
3. The complexity measures

 

Ⅴ. Discussion

A. What response should teachers give students’ writing?

1. Less time-consuming methods
2. Independent of type of feedback
3. Not highly detailed feedback on sentence-level mechanics

 

Reference

Salience of Feedback on Error and Its Effect on EFL Writing Quality Thomas Robb, Steven Ross and Ian Shortreed TESOL Quarterly Vol. 20, No. 1 (Mar., 1986), pp. 83-95