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A STUDY OF THE STUDENTS
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VIEWS TOWARD WRITTEN AND
ORAL CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK IN WRITING
Herinta Dyan Pratiwi
Abstract
The issue of which feedback, oral or written corrective feedback, is effective for students’
writing improvement both in the process and the quality of product is still questionable, since
each feedback has its own features. Oral corrective feedback has the strength of providing
face-to-face conversing in which offering the students opportunity to discuss complex ideas.
On the other hand, written corrective feedback get the excess of improving students’ accuracy
and providing a guideline with sufficient information for writing process. Inspired by the
issue, the study was held to explore The English Department students’ perspectives towards
the feedbacks in proposal writing. The participants of this study were 20 students of Satya
Wacana Christian University who were taking proposal writing class. All of the 20 students
were interviewed. The findings showed that students found both written and oral corrective
feedback effective in generating ideas, improving accuracy, and facilitating sufficient
information for revision. However, students preferred written corrective feedback better than
the oral corrective feedback.
Keywords: oral corrective feedback, written corrective feedback, students’ perspective,
