直接反馈和间接反馈对学生英语写作质量的影响

The Effectiveness of Direct and Indirect Feedback on Students' English Writing

英语写作是一个复杂的过程,要求英语学习者充分利用所学的英语技能。提高英语写作水平不仅需要学习者加强练习,还需要教师的有效反馈。本研究旨在研究学习者接受教师的不同书面修正性反馈后其写作质量的变化情况。研究对象为刚刚升入大学的一年级新生。本研究通过收集大一新生15周所写的240篇作文,分析直接反馈和间接反馈对学生作文质量的影响。研究发现,直接反馈可以更好地帮助学生减少偏题、语篇连贯和体裁错误;间接反馈可以帮助减少学生的拼写、语法和词汇错误。

English writing is a complex process, which requires English learners to make full use of skills they have acquired. The improvement of English depends on not only writing practices but also the effectiveness of instruction received. This research studied the variation of English writing after the English learners received different kinds of feedback from the teacher. The research participants mainly involved the freshmen, who just began their college years. During the research, 240 compositions from students were collected in total,which lasted for 15 weeks. The present study investigated the effectiveness of both direct feedback and indirect feedback on English writing through the analysis of compositions. The results showed that direct feedback is more helpful to decrease content-based errors concerning topical relevance, coherence and genre, while indirect feedback benefits in the reduction of form-based errors relating to spelling, grammar and lexis.