Developing Process Writing Ability in Virtual Learning Environment via (Reinforced) Metalinguistic Corrective Feedback

Journal of English Language Pedagogy and Practice

مقالات آماده انتشار، پذیرفته شده، انتشار آنلاین از تاریخ 26 دی 1402

نوع مقاله: Research Paper

شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.30495/jal.2024.1994785.1518

نویسندگان

Maryam Naderi Farsani¹؛ Parviz Alavinia^{* 1}؛ Mehdi Sarkhosh²

¹Urmia University

²Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran

چکیده

The current study was performed to investigate the impact of metalinguistic oral and written corrective feedback on learners’ process writing ability through virtual learning environment. To this aim, a total of 66 Iranian EFL students in Shahrekord University participated in the study. To conduct the study, a sample of IELTS expository writing (Writing Task 1) was administered to all participants for homogeneity purposes. Then, each of the two classes was divided into two parts, and each was randomly assigned to one of the four comparison groups (oral metalinguistic feedback, written metalinguistic feedback, oral metalinguistic + error logs, and written metalinguistic + error logs). Next, the writing pretest (a process writing task) was given to participants prior to instruction. The treatment lasted for eight weeks, and then process writing posttest was administered. The results revealed that all groups made progress from pretest to posttest. However, no significant difference was found among the four types of metalinguistic corrective feedback. The implications of the findings are discussed throughout the paper.

کلیدواژه‌ها

Oral metalinguistic feedback؛ written metalinguistic feedback؛ error logs؛ virtual learning environment