The Role of Reactive Form –Focused Oral Feedback in the Devalopment of Iranian EFL Learners'Grammatical Accuracy in Writing Skill

Abstract

There are 2 kinds of feedback in the form focused instruction that can help SLA students to extend their linguistic resources. This article investigates the role of Reactive Form Focused instruction that involves corrective feedback and other attempts to draw learners' attention to Language–Form during interaction and practicing correcting writing errors. In this study 60 students who had enrolled in "advanced writing" course in Azad University of Rasht, IRAN, selected and passed OPT, 20 of subject's distributed in to two groups. After Pre- test the errors in their written data were analyzed by the researcher and two other raters in terms of identifying and classifying of the grammatical errors which were found in tenses, articles, ….This classification was used as guidelines for negotiation in experimental class .In experimental class , from the recorded class activities, Reactive Form Focused Episodes/RFFES extracted in order to grantee whether the negotiation happened around the pre-test grammar errors/classification. comparison between the means of pre and post test showed that Reactive Form Focused Oral Feedback/Negotiation has more effects in correcting grammatical errors than Red pen Underlined error correction in advanced writing class of Azad University of Rasht.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2013.v4n4p157