Students’ Response to Teachers’ Feedback on Writing The Case of Third Year Students at Ghuettouche Khalifa Secondary School

Abstract

Writing is considered as the most difficult skill , that’s why students need an effective feedback from their teachers in order to develop their writing . Therefore, the ultimate goal of this study was to investigate the effect of the teachers’ written feedback on enhancing students’ written productions . To achieve this aim and test our hypotheses that state That both teachers and students are aware of the importance of feedback, we also assume that teachers try to use some strategies to help students consider their feedback , and after providing written feedback, students’ performance will be improved. We have used two research instruments :a questionnaire which was distributed to ( 30) third year students at Ghuettouche Khalifa secondary school, and an interview that was addressed to( 04) English teachers at the same school during the academic year 2019/2020.The obtained results from analyzing the gathered data of students’ questionnaire and teachers’ interview revealed that teachers’ written feedback is an effective strategy that helps in enhancing students writing skills; moreover, based on the findings of this research teachers have to provide feedback on preliminary drafts not on final ones.