The Effects of Metalinguistic Written Corrective Feedback (WCF) On Language Preparatory School Students` TOEFL Independent Writing Section Score

Saban Kara (Tishk International University, Erbil, Iraq 100 Meter Street and Mosul Road, Erbil, KRG, IRAQ)
Soran Abdulrahman (Tishk International University, Erbil, Iraq 100 Meter Street and Mosul Road, Erbil, KRG, IRAQ)

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan
Vol 8, No 4: APRIL 2023

This paper examined the impacts of metalinguistic feedback on the TOEFL IBT Independent Writing Section Score of language preparatory school students` over 12 weeks using pre-test and post-test. Experimental group students were exposed to metalinguistic feedback, whereas control group students were exposed to direct feedback in an Academic Writing course. Independent samples t test and paired samples t test were employed to gather quantitative date, while the interview was used to get qualitative data. The results revealed that experimental group students` results were higher than control group ones. It shows that metalinguistic feedback yields better results than direct feedback.