The Effect of Corrective Feedback On Developing Academic Writing Skills: Pakistani ESL Students Perspective

Abstract

Corrective feedback has played an important role in promoting academic writing skills in students. The main aim of this research is to explore the role of corrective feedback on academic writing on ESL students at Government College Women University Sialkot, Pakistan. The qualitative method is used in this study for to gather data in the form of interviews by students. Further, observation and documentations were held to get complete information. It is revealed by results that students have learned the norms of academic writing and their academic writing is improved. In fact, they became more confident in academic writing skill. In addition, the students became habitual to get more comments from peers and teacher for to promote their cognition. The tendency of cognition is mostly depended on individual differences. Further the teacher promotes the critical thinking skill in the student by instigating a question answer session in the class when he was given clarification in the corrective feedback in academic writing class.