The Effect of Teacher Direct Written Corrective Feedback on Writing of Diploma in Hospitality and Management Students in Segi University

This study was aimed at investigating how teacher direct written corrective feedback impacted students’ grammatical accuracy in their writing. Besides that, it also looked into how teacher direct written corrective feedback affected students’ usage of grammatical forms in their writing. The study employed quasi-experimental research design and the data was obtained from a set of pre-test and post-test. As indicated from the findings from semester one Diploma in Hospitality and Management students from SEGI University, the students benefitted from teacher direct written corrective feedback and showed improvement in the usage of some grammatical forms which were articles, conjunctions and pronouns. The findings also showed that the majority of the students in this study perceived teacher direct written corrective feedback as useful and helpful in helping them in improving their grammatical accuracy in their writing and they wanted the teacher to continue providing direct written corrective feedback in their writing. The findings have implications on the importance of the practice of giving feedback to student’ writing.