Effectiveness of Corrective Feedback on Writing

This study aims to find out the effectiveness of corrective feedback on ESL writing.By reviewing and analyzing the previous six research studies,the author tries to reveal the most effective way to provide corrective feedback for L2 students and the factors that impact the processing of error feedback.Findings indicated that corrective feedback is helpful for students to improve ESL writing on both accuracy and fluency.Furthermore,correction and direct corrective feedbacks as well as the oral and written meta-linguistic explanation are the most effective ways to help students improving their writing.However,in dividual learner's difference has influence on processing corrective feedback.At last,limitation of present study and suggestion for future research were made.

修正性反馈对提高ESL写作水平的影响——以不同国籍学习者为考察维度

本研究通过采访和跟踪访谈等形式,从学习者本位视角描述其ESL写作中的语法改进目标。通过倾听学习者声音,试图从国际留学生角度再度探讨备受争议的语法改错问题。在对某国际研究生班考察一个学期后,笔者分析20名不同国籍受试对教师修正性反馈的认知态度,重新考量二语写作中修正语法错误的必要性及可操作性。研究发现:(1)有些ESL学习者设立的中介语学习目标不切实际;(2)语法问题一直困扰学习者的二语写作;(3)成年ESL学习者在语法方面仍需教师指导。研究呼吁教师在安排教学活动时应倾听学习者声音。最后,笔者针对二语写作教师如何帮助ESL学习者提高英语语言运用水平提出了建议。

HELPING EFL STUDENTS LEARN TO WRITE THROUGH FEEDBACK

There have been a lot of complaints from theteachers who teach English writing in China on theheavy load of correcting students’ work and the low ef-ficiency involved.This article discusses the problemscaused by the traditional approach to teaching Englishwriting,and suggests that one way to improve stu-dents writing skills is to develop students’ composingprocesses,especially the process of revision.Based onresearch findings and the many-year teaching practice,the author describes some ways of helping studentslearn to write through using feedback effectively.

运用分析性评估标准引导大学英语写作课堂动态评估与反馈

本文研究了教师将分析性写作评估标准(Jacobs et al.,1981)实践于大学英语写作课堂的教学效果。教学以社会互动理论为引导,教师与学生共同参与作文课堂动态评估。研究通过独立样本t检验来考察教学前后103名学生写作成绩的显著性差异,同时通过多元线性回归分析检测评估标准中的五大元素——写作内容、篇章组织、语言运用、词汇使用和写作规范性来说明其对教学的影响力(R^2=.564)。结果表明,课堂动态评估写作教学能有效提高学生写作能力并促其获得评估知识。