The Application of Metalingustic Corrective Feedback to Enhance the Unsika Students’ Ability to Eliminate Grammatical Errors in Writing : A Case Study of Students at University of Singaperbangsa Karawang

hj. mimin ninawati s.e, m.pd; ujang suparman, ma.,ph.d, dr.santi c djonhar;

The purpose of this study was to examine how useful is metalinguistic corrective feedback to enhance students’ ability in eliminating the grammatical errors in their writing. For answering the research question, the researcher applied a qualitative descriptive design. Relating to participants, the research involved six students of English Department, University of Singaperbangsa Karawang, batch 2012. The data for this study were collected from the Students’ Writing Assignments. This is an essay writing based on some of the topics dealing with exposition and discussion type of essay that were carried out during the process of investigation. These students’ assignments were then analyzed for evidence of how metalinguistic corrective feedback/error codes used during the study. The study indicated that all participants had a decrease in the number of errors in immediate revised texts after receiving metalinguistic corrective feedback from the lecturer. However, giving teacher written corrective feedback on student writing may not provide a long-term effect in terms of reducing the errors on grammatical items when they wrote a new essay. Based on those findings, a future research is suggested to investigate its long-term effect by involving the same students’ performance for not only four sequences but for the whole semester or even the whole academic year. It is also recommended to figure out the students’ reactions to the feedback given by the lecturer to support the possible data resulted from the study.