The Effects of Teacher's Corrective Feedback on Kurdish EFL Undergraduate Students’ Redraft Essays

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to know the importance of corrective feedback to Kurdish EFL students at the university level. A questionnaire was used to show students’ views and ideas towards the importance of teacher’s written corrective feedback in the College of Basic Education in Sulaimani University. The number of participants was eighty third year students. The study was conducted on 1 May 2016. The major finding of this study is that most of the study respondents believe that written corrective feedback is always important to be provided by the teachers in order to improve grammatical, punctuation, styles of essay writing. The outcomes of this also contribute new insights to those who teach writing in EFL or ESL classes.

Keywords: corrective feedback, teacher’s corrective feedback, Kurdish EFL students, redrafted essays