The Interactive Effect of Feedback Strategy and Language Error Type on the Students’ Revision in EFL Writing

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2015.07.010

Abstract

Abstract: This study aims to explore how language error types mediate the effect of different feedback strategies by analyzing a total of 169 feedback points of 43 college EFL student essays and subsequent student revisions. All Factorial Variance and Multiple comparisons show that feedback strategy, error type, and the interaction between feedback strategy and error type are all significant factors. Post-hoc analysis further reveals that different feedback strategies are needed to effectively help students correct the 4 types of language errors, namely morphological, lexical, syntactic, and discourse errors. The more difficult the errors are for the students to correct, the more explicit the feedback strategy should be.

CLC Number:

H319

WU Wei. The Interactive Effect of Feedback Strategy and Language Error Type on the Students’ Revision in EFL Writing[J]. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 2015, 15(07): 47-52.

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