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Article Reflection by MAHMUT KARACA

I have read the article “The Effect of Written Corrective Feedback on the Writing of Turkish EFL Students” by Akın Sahin and I will comment on it.

Errors are common characteristic of language acquisition and learning. That is to say everyone will make errors in the process of learning no matter learning the first language or the second language. However, in second language classroom, teacher usually wants students to speak as much as possible and encourage them to speak with the purpose of improving communication competence. When students speak second language, it is normal that they will also make various errors and the errors fossilize if teacher do not provide corrective feedback. As the writer mentioned in the article, I think that error correction in writing is very important to improve learner’s linguistic accuracy in writing. The most important point that was mentioned in the article was about the success of corrective feedback. According to the article, corrective feedback is very useful for students to improve their writing. It has positive effects on students’ writing skills. However, it says that the success or failure of corrective feedback changes according to the classroom atmosphere, the type of error students make, their proficiency level, etc. Another important point that should be considered is the type of feedback. The teachers should be very careful while giving feedback: they should think about classroom context because some classroom context requires implicit feedback or some requires explicit feedback. The teacher should choose the one which is much more convenient..

I believe that one of the most difficult and essential part of being a teacher is giving corrective feedback to students. The teachers should be very careful while giving feedback; they should try to find the most convenient way considering the classroom atmosphere, the type of error students make, their proficiency level, etc. Maybe, it seems a very easy topic but if the teacher doesn’t correct the errors, it causes fossilization and it can be impossible to correct some errors when it is late.