Effectiveness of Student Responses to Teacher Written Feedback: A Study of Thai Graduate Students

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Supong Tangkiengsirisin

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This study investigates how graduate students respond to various types of teacher written feedback including surface-level, clarification-level, and content-level feedback. Data were obtained from 180 students’ expository compositions, which were analyzed in terms of categories of feedback delivered to them and the ways they were revised in response to the teacher’s comments provided. The results revealed that most of the students completely responded to the teacher commentary and revised their initial drafts effectively. However, some of the student revisions were partially complete, or in a few cases there were no revisions in response to the comments, suggesting that the students did not understand the feedback the teacher provided or that the teacher’s comments were not clear and effective enough.

Keywords: Teacher written feedback, process-oriented writing, second language writing

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Tangkiengsirisin, S. (2014). Effectiveness of Student Responses to Teacher Written Feedback: A Study of Thai Graduate Students. Journal of Studies in the English Language, 6. Retrieved from https://so04.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/jsel/article/view/21853
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Author Biography

Supong Tangkiengsirisin

Supong Tangkiengsirisin is an Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics at the Language Institute of Thammasat
University, Bangkok, Thailand, where he currently serves as Director. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in English from
Chulalongkorn University and earned his Ph.D. in English Studies from the University of Nottingham. With over 20 years
of teaching experience at the tertiary level, he has covered a wide range of areas in his teaching including academic writing,
written business communication, English for Specific Purposes, and career-related English skills, both in the undergraduate
and graduate levels. He also specializes in teacher training in Thai contexts with a focus on English teachers’ language
skills and professional development for primary and secondary education. His research interests involve second language
writing, genre analysis, and interlanguage pragmatics. He has compiled course books on English for Health Sciences and
English for Sociology and Anthropology