Do Teachers and Students Share the Same Feedback Meaning? A Quantitative Study among Secondary Schools in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Teachers’ feedback has been used for centuries by students who use English as second language to improve their writing skills. This study sought to find out the students and teachers’ responses to teacher corrective feedback in composition writing among Secondary Schools in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe usi...
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| Language: | English |
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Africa Journals Online
2022
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11408/5194 |
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| Summary: | Teachers’ feedback has been used for centuries by students who use English as second
language to improve their writing skills. This study sought to find out the students and teachers’
responses to teacher corrective feedback in composition writing among Secondary Schools in Bulawayo,
Zimbabwe using parallel questionnaires for teachers and students. The study also analyzed whether there
was a significant difference between teachers and students’ responses. Fifty-six teachers and 251 ‘O
Level English students randomly selected from 25 secondary schools in Bulawayo were the sample of the
study. Data collected from the questionnaires was analyzed through Statistical Package for Social
Sciences (SPSS version 10). Findings showed that there were high overall means for Feed Up, Feed Back
and Feed Forward for both teachers and students who valued these response aspects although they
disagreed on some aspects. Independent samples Mann-Whitney U test showed that there was a
significant difference between the teachers’ and students’ responses on Feed Up and Feed Back, Sig
=.000. It is only in Feed Forward that there was no significant difference in responses as shown by a Sig
of .072. The study therefore recommended that teachers should always have mechanisms in place to find
out whether the students have understood teachers’ feedback or not in order to assist learners
accordingly as well as using such information on planning and developing useful teaching strategies. The
schools administration should provide teachers with the necessary resources for them to be able to
adequately and properly assist learners in the composition writing process. |
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