Students’ Responses Toward Teacher’s Written Feedback in the Writing Class

Abstract

Teacher’s written feedback is one of the important roles for the students to help them develop their writing skills and performance. Many studies have been conducted on the type of corrective and oral feedback as well as the effect of giving feedback. Nonetheless, there have only been a few researchers who discussed students’ respond toward feedback. This study aims to find out how the student’s perception or view toward teacher’s written feedback that they receive. A qualitative research methodology with a phenomenological based interview using open-ended questions was used in this research. The participants were five students from the 2016 batch at the English Language Education Program, Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana. This research findings that in receiving the teacher’s written feedback, the students had a positive and negative response. Then, the students also did follow up on those responses. This research also found that the students had own strategies in providing feedback for the students when they become a teacher in the future. Furthermore, the students also thought that teacher’s feedback was helpful in the writing process.