One of the teacher’s role is as a facilitator, therefore they should be able to give feedback on student’s work both in proper ways and proper quantity, therefore teacher can provide students to know how their work did and what they have to do relate to that. Students’ mistakes usually happened both on written or oral work. But here, we are focus on some different ways of giving feedback in the students’ written work. As Harmer mentioned in his book ‘the way we give feedback on writing will depend on the kind of writing task the students have undertaker, and the effect we wish to create’(Harmer, 2007). We have to distinguish whether student is doing controlled testing activity or more creative writing written work such as stories, letters, reports, etc. On the constructed writing work, you just need to mention right or wrong. However, on creative written work, you can response, correcting, and do students exchange work to give the feedback to them.
In the writing work teacher can give response of students work through comment. You can comment about how students work and any necessary thing about that work, therefore they will be realizing their lack by themselves. Write it out of the body of students work. David Nunan said ‘ When writing short comments, we tend to leave out the words that soften our message’(Nunan,2003). Teacher cannot give comment that sounds unkind.
Another way, you can mark the part where the students did wrong. But, teachers do not directly correct it by writing the correct one. They can just let the mark on so that student will identify more about what is wrong with that. Or u can also use symbol. According to David Nunan, ‘If you write comment on students’ papers, make sure they understand the vocabulary or symbols that you use. Take time to discuss them in class.’(Nunan,2003). Those symbols will help students to be focus of what they have to be more concern about.
The last way of giving feedback is through students’ correction. Students exchange their work and attempt to correct one another. It will increase their awareness of another student’s mistakes so that it will reflect to themselves when they are writing their paper on the other time. Harmer stated that ‘ The more we encourage them to involved in giving feedback to other, or to evaluate their own work successfully, the better they will be able to develop as successful writer.’(Harmer,2007)
Actually, all the ways of giving feedback is essential to correct the students work and increase their ability of language acquisition. However if it is not be given appropriately, sometimes it can become a boomerang that can discourage or even kill your students’ enthusiastic of the learning process. Therefore, to manage it well is become crucial.
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Topik : Feedback
1. Topic sentence
Some ways of giving feedback on students‘ creative written work
2. Supporting detail
a. Response
- Comment students work
- Do not giving students unkind comment
b. Correcting
- Marking students mistakes
- Giving code
c. Involving students
- Students exchange works
- Increase self correctness
3. Conclusion
Personal remark
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