LECTURER’S FEEDBACK ON STUDENTS’ WRITTEN PERFORMANCE

Abstract

Abstract: The purpose of this researcher wanted to know how English lecturers gave feedback towards student’s task in writing subject. There are two strategies that could be used in giving evaluative feedback. In writing subject, it is very important to see the written feedback that had been given by the lecturers to their college students. Thus the researcher wanted to know how the English lecturers gave written feedback to their students and which strategies they used. Based on the content feedback there are seven indicators which should be searched: focus, comparison, function, valence, clarity, specificity, and tone. The research design of this research is descriptive. This research has been done in the subject English Paragraph Writing of the first year students in the academic year 2022/2023. The sampling technique of this research is random sampling technique which are the data had been taken from three classes. The data are taken from documents which are 21 from 105 documents. The researcher found that English lecturers used evaluative and descriptive feedback strategies.  In evaluative written feedback, the lecturer gave score based on the numbering and letters from students written tasks. Then, in descriptive written feedback lecturers gave feedback based on the content of student’s written based on the indicators.

Keywords: Lecturers Feedback , Student’s Written Performance