TEACHER FEEDBACK IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE WRITING:
WHAT DO STUDENTS THINK?
Indah Permata Sari
Abstract
This study aims to investigate Lab senior high school students’ perceptions toward the advantages and disadvantages of teacher feedback in their writing activities. The investigation focuses on the factors that commonly influence the students’ perceptions toward feedback given such as the content and the amount of the feedback. The analysis of senior high school students’ perceptions toward their teacher feedback is important since feedback has been only given as an instructional purpose – where there will be no revision needed and no further checking, from the teacher, applied. The data from close ended questionnaires were analyzed to identify students’ perceptions of their teacher’s feedback. This study intends to give a broader insight for senior high school teachers in giving feedback to single-draft writing assignment. Besides, this research might also become a basis for teacher to adjust their feedback, increase their awareness of students’ feeling after receiving the feedback, and also build more understandable comments in the inputs given. Moreover, through the exploration of students’ perspectives about their teachers’ feedback, teacher will be able to know more about whether the feedback given improve the students’ writing performance or not.
