2024 : 12 : 9
Shirin Abadikhah

Shirin Abadikhah

Academic rank: Associate Professor
ORCID:
Education: PhD.
ScopusId:
HIndex: 0/00
Faculty: Department of literature
Address: Department of English Language and Literature; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; University of Mazandaran; Shahid Beheshti Street 47415 P.O Box 416; Babolsar; Iran.
Phone: 01135302673

Research

Title
EFL Students’ Perceptions of Teacher Feedback and Intra-Feedback in Writing Essays
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Written feedback; Intra-feedback; Teacher and Peer feedback; Students’ perceptions
Year
2018
Journal Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
DOI
Researchers Maryam Kazemi ، Shirin Abadikhah ، Mahmood Dehqan

Abstract

This study examines EFL students’ perceptions of teacher feedback and intra-feedback in writing essays in an EFL university context. Traditionally, teachers who were considered more knowledgeable provided feedback to students' writing. Recently, peer feedback is considered as an alternative form of feedback, which involves a dynamic process of reviewing and discussing one another’s text in a writing class. Intra-feedback, another form of peer feedback, is a reviewer-oriented practice in which two reviewers discuss their comments provided individually on the composition of another student. This paper investigates 21 EFL students’ perceptions of teacher feedback and peer feedback using intra-feedback technique. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected using a questionnaire and follow-up semi-structured interviews. The results of the questionnaire indicated that students perceived teacher feedback to be most useful in improving the content, organization and language of their essays. From the interviews with the students, their preferences toward feedback provider, feedback focus, feedback provision and intra-feedback inclusion were elicited. Some pedagogical implications for the EFL writing instruction can be made including creation of opportunities for students to become aware of effective reviewing techniques, improvement of peer feedback quality and increasing students’ confidence and critical thinking.