Who Do Learners Prefer to be Corrected by? Teachers or Classmates?

The current article aims to investigate the possible effects of Iranian EFL learners’ age, gender and proficiency level on their preferences for corrective feedback provider. To meet this end, a questionnaire was distributed among 147 Iranian EFL learners to choose their preferences for corrective feedback provider. The data gathered was then submitted to SPSS software, and was analyzed using a Chi-Square test. The results have indicated that there was a statistically significant relationship between learners’ age and gender and their preferences for corrective feedback provider. However, no statistically significant relationship was found between learners’ proficiency level and their preferences for corrective feedback provider. The results demonstrated that female students prefer to be corrected by their teachers only, while males tended to receive corrective feedback from both their teachers and classmates. Moreover the results indicated that teens and young adults were more eager to be corrected by the teacher, whereas adults preferred to be corrected by both their teachers and their classmates.