期刊名称：International Journal of English and Education
印刷版ISSN：2278-4012
出版年度：2015
卷号：4
期号：2
页码：142
出版社：Brahmaputra Publishing House
摘要：This study was conducted to investigate the impact of metalinguistic and learners’uptake feedbacks on second language writing. To do so, 90 female Persian-speaking EFLlearners studying English at Gooyesh Language Institute were chosen as the participants of thestudy. Then, they were randomly assigned to one of the three groups, a control (group A) andtwo experimental groups (Metalinguistic and Uptake). At first, a pre-test was given to students inthe first session and the students wrote a paragraph about a given topic. Then, they were takingthe writing course and the first seven chapters of Zemach and Rumisek’s (2003) AcademicWriting: from paragraph to essay were used as the main course book taught to students in tensessions.Finally, One day after the experimental intervention ended, the post-test wasadministered to all participants in order to test the hypothesis of the study. Then Analytic Scalefor Rating Composition Tasks by Brown and Bailey (1985) was employed for the scoringprocedure (by three raters). At the end, appropriate statistical operations, including t-test, wereused to analyze the data. The results indicated that metalinguistic and learners’ uptakefeedbacks are effective on second language writing.
关键词：Metalinguistic; Uptake; feedback; Second language writing
