THE PREFERENCES OF ESL ALBANIAN STUDENTS FOR ERROR CORRECTION IN UNIVERSITY LEVEL WRITING CLASSES

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  • Florije Bilalli University of Tetova "Fadil Sulejmani" - Tetova, North Macedonia

Abstract

The present study, both qualitative and quantitative, explored thirty-three ESL learners’ preferences for receiving error feedback on different grammatical units as well as their beliefs about teacher feedback strategies.

The study also examined the effect of the students’ level of writing ability on their views about the importance of teacher feedback on different error types. Data was gathered through the administration of two questionnaires, verbal protocol analysis, and students’ writing scores.

The results of repeated measures, multivariate analysis, and  frequency  counts  revealed  that  the  majority  of  the students expect and value teachers’ written feedback on the following surface-level errors: transitional words, sentence structure, verb tenses, adverbs, punctuation, prepositions, and spelling, respectively.

The results of think-aloud protocol analysis indicated that students’ beliefs about the importance of feedback on different grammatical units are formed as a result of the teacher’s practice and his emphasis on certain types of feedback and corrective feedback strategies.

Finally, the findings of thestudy showed that the L2 learners’ level of writing ability influences their views about the importance of corrective feedback on errors pertinent to particular grammatical units.

Keywords: feedback, error, percepton, preferences, writing.

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Published

2020-12-01

How to Cite

Bilalli, F. (2020). THE PREFERENCES OF ESL ALBANIAN STUDENTS FOR ERROR CORRECTION IN UNIVERSITY LEVEL WRITING CLASSES. ANGLISTICUM. Journal of the Association-Institute for English Language and American Studies, 9(10), 32–36. Retrieved from https://anglisticum.org.mk/index.php/IJLLIS/article/view/2132

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Volume 9, No.10, October 2020