The Effects of Different Types of Corrective Feedback on L2 Writing Accuracy of College Students

Since the process writing was raised in the L2 writing in 1970s, the feedback has been an important part of teaching. A range of researchers have done researchs about the effects of different types of error feedback to find whether the feedback can improve the second language writing skills. Similar to the previously discussed question, they have also reached rather controversial conclusions. Most often, these studies have classified corrective feedback as either direct or indirect. To explore the effects of corrective feedback in the second language writing, the paper investigated the types of feedback given to 30 college students of Tianhe College in Guangdong province. The study improved that correction feedback can improve accuracy in student writing.