Insights From Verbal Protocols Of Esl Writers’ Response To Written Feedback

Feedback is essential for the development of ESL writing skills. The responses that lecturers provide on students‟ writing are essential to encourage and develop students‟ writing. However, there is a paucity in the literature as to how students attend to feedback. This study investigated the th...

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Main Author: Sharmini, Sharon
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Language:English
English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/12331/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/12331/1/FBMK_2010_8A.pdf
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description Feedback is essential for the development of ESL writing skills. The responses that lecturers provide on students‟ writing are essential to encourage and develop students‟ writing. However, there is a paucity in the literature as to how students attend to feedback. This study investigated the thought processes of six ESL postgraduate students as they attended to written feedback. Using a case study qualitative approach, concurrent verbal protocols of the writers were recorded as they attended to written feedback. Written texts and lecturer comments supplemented the data. The findings indicate that written feedback encouraged the writers to plan, justify, reflect and evaluate recursively. A second finding is that statement, question and imperative types of feedback encouraged recursiveness.This study concludes by suggesting that it is important for lectures to be aware of the impact of feedback. The study also suggests that the think aloud method is useful as a tool in teaching ESL writing to help student writers to reflect on the feedback and develop their writing.
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spelling upm-123312013-05-27T07:51:42Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/12331/ Insights From Verbal Protocols Of Esl Writers’ Response To Written Feedback Sharmini, Sharon Feedback is essential for the development of ESL writing skills. The responses that lecturers provide on students‟ writing are essential to encourage and develop students‟ writing. However, there is a paucity in the literature as to how students attend to feedback. This study investigated the thought processes of six ESL postgraduate students as they attended to written feedback. Using a case study qualitative approach, concurrent verbal protocols of the writers were recorded as they attended to written feedback. Written texts and lecturer comments supplemented the data. The findings indicate that written feedback encouraged the writers to plan, justify, reflect and evaluate recursively. A second finding is that statement, question and imperative types of feedback encouraged recursiveness.This study concludes by suggesting that it is important for lectures to be aware of the impact of feedback. The study also suggests that the think aloud method is useful as a tool in teaching ESL writing to help student writers to reflect on the feedback and develop their writing. 2010-02 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/12331/1/FBMK_2010_8A.pdf Sharmini, Sharon (2010) Insights From Verbal Protocols Of Esl Writers’ Response To Written Feedback. Masters thesis, Universiti Putra Malaysia. English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers English language - Verbals English language - Rhetoric English
spellingShingle English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers
English language - Verbals
English language - Rhetoric
Sharmini, Sharon
Insights From Verbal Protocols Of Esl Writers’ Response To Written Feedback
title Insights From Verbal Protocols Of Esl Writers’ Response To Written Feedback
title_full Insights From Verbal Protocols Of Esl Writers’ Response To Written Feedback
title_fullStr Insights From Verbal Protocols Of Esl Writers’ Response To Written Feedback
title_full_unstemmed Insights From Verbal Protocols Of Esl Writers’ Response To Written Feedback
title_short Insights From Verbal Protocols Of Esl Writers’ Response To Written Feedback
title_sort insights from verbal protocols of esl writers’ response to written feedback
topic English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers
English language - Verbals
English language - Rhetoric
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/12331/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/12331/1/FBMK_2010_8A.pdf