An Investigation of Meta-linguistic Corrective Feedback in Writing Performance

Debate about the value of providing corrective feedback on L2 writing has been prominent in recent years. According to Chandler (2003) meta-linguistic corrective feedback operates as the provision of the correct form in the student's written texts by underlining the error and writing the target form above it and directing the written corrections at errors in a specific structure. By comparing traditional direct error feedback with meta-linguistic corrective feedback the present study attempts to find out, whether experimental group will be more accurate than the control group or not. After conducting the experiment and analyzing the results through t-test, it was revealed that the experimental group subjects who were assessed and instructed through implementing meta-linguistic code-correction outperformed the traditionally-instructed control group in their post test.