The purpose of this study is to prove the relation between the influence of focused feedback and unfocused feedback and the grammar accuracy. The teacher's efforts for correcting the grammatical errors of student's writing came out as various attempts...
The purpose of this study is to prove the relation between the influence of focused feedback and unfocused feedback and the grammar accuracy. The teacher's efforts for correcting the grammatical errors of student's writing came out as various attempts of feedback methods. However, the researches related on focused feedback are not existed in Korean education yet. In the case of foreign studies, there are several studies about defining the effects of feedback that are focused on article errors. This study attempts to compare the change of grammatical accuracy through the focused feedback and unfocused feedback.
The subject of this research is focused on how the two feedbacks will influence the usage of accurate Korean proposition and the grammatical accuracy, and two research hypothesis are set up.
First, the accuracy of proposition usage will be higher when focused feedback is provided to a group than when unfocused feedback is provided.
Second, the group which receives focused feedback will be more effective than the group which receives unfocused feedback on the reduction of grammar error rate.
Experimental methods were as following.
After collecting the student's writing, two groups were set. One was the experimental group which receives corrective feedback only for proposition errors, the other was the control group which receives corrective feedback for all grammatical errors. There were four writing tasks - pre test, for experimental writing test, rewriting test, and post test. To judge the effect of feedback, the proposition error rate and the entire grammar error rate from pre-test and post-test were analysed statistically.
The result of the experiment told that the proposition error rate from post-test was not statistically significant, so both two groups were still in same level. And also the change of grammar error rate showed that the difference between the experimental and controlled groups were not statistically significant as well. However, the change of grammar error rate which occurs within the group appeared statistically significant, so both two feedbacks showed up to make positive effect regarding grammar accuracy.
These experimental results showed that the reduce of entire grammar error could be expected through focused feedback and this study provided the basis of the effect which focused feedback gives.