The Provision of Written Corrective Feedback on Students Writing: Beliefs and Practices

Abstract

---This article is aimed at describing a lecturer’s beliefs and practices regarding the provision of written corrective feedback. The data was taken from a lecturer of English Education Department who taught writing course at a State Islamic University of Lampung, Indonesia. Interview and feedback analysis were used to collect the data. The data analysis revealed both congruence and incongruence between lecturers’ beliefs and their practices. The congruence was obtained on the focus and the explicitness of written corrective feedback done by the lecturer. Meanwhile, the incongruence were found at the amount of written corrective feedback, and positive versus negative feedback used by the lecturer. The incongruence found in this study, thus, could be used as a springboard for meaningful discussion between lecturers, which could hopefully raise the awareness about their beliefs.