The effect of a corrective feedback technique on reducing nonnative-speaking students composition errors

Abstract EN

Most high-school Jordanian students" compositions suffer from a large number of grammatical, lexical, and orthographic errors.

Their teachers wish to reduce such errors and like to know how to do it This study is an attempt in this direction ft aims at investigating the efBeacy ofLalande composition correction strategy {LCCS) on reducing the grammatical and orthographic errors of high-school students in Jordan.

Forty eleventh-grade students were selected; 20 comprised the experimental group and another 20 comprised the control group.

The experimental group underwent a special treatment using LCCS for ten weeks, A pretest was given to both groups at the beginning of the study and a posttest at conclusion of the experiment.

An independent sample test was used to compare between the means of errors of both groups, The results revealed that the experimental group committed significantly fewer errors.

The effect of LCCS was marked on article errors, spelling errors, and structure errors.

Teachers are recommended to use it since it can help in developing their students' writing skill.