Incorporating Different Forms of Feedback in Teaching Writing: An Insight into a Real Classroom

Abstract

Responding constructively to students’ writing has been a challenge for the teachers. Many studies have been conducted exploring the effective ways of giving feedback. However, how those different forms can be combined, can work in real classrooms and what the effects can be have been less discussed. This paper is an attempt to project an experience of applying different forms of feedback in teaching writing. In other words, it intends to discuss the underlying role of different forms of feedback and its result in responding to students’ written text. With this purpose, 30 samples of students’ writings (along with provided feedback) have been collected and analyzed. The paper also tries to discuss the possible problems during applying this combined approach of providing feedback along with probable solutions. Novice teachers in similar ESL (English as a second language) or EFL ( English as a foreign language) context may find the paper useful since it shows how to combine different methods of giving feedback to students written text with the aim of developing students’ writing skills.