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The Use of University Students’ English Essays and Reflection Comments to Provide More Effective Feedback

Authors
Sumie Akutsu1, *
1Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan
*Corresponding author. Email: akutsu@toyo.jp
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Sumie Akutsu
Available Online 18 May 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_60How to use a DOI?
Keywords
ELT; Learner Corpus; Writing Feedback; SLA; EFL
Abstract

This paper outlines a university course utilizing students’ English essays and reflection comments to help students develop their writing skills in English. It will show some preliminary results of the data collected and analyzed to discuss certain patterns that students preferred in terms of sentence structure and vocabulary. Based on the reflection comments submitted with the essay writing assignments in which the students were asked to describe what was the most difficult area for them, some of the students seemed to be aware of their dependency on using certain expressions or sentence structures but had not yet found a means to overcome this problem. In order to help students become more aware of their tendencies and to find ways to improve their writing skills, feedback based on the data analysis was used to provide valuable insights for the students to apply to their future essay writing. In this paper, the use of students’ essay writing and reflection comments is discussed with the purpose of identifying common sources of difficulty and errors among learners of English to provide more effective feedback.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 20th AsiaTEFL-68th TEFLIN-5th iNELTAL Conference (ASIATEFL 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
18 May 2023
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_60
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_60How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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