The Impact of Teachers’ Implicit Corrective Feedback on Enhancing Learners’ Self Correction Abilities

Abstract

Providing learners’ with implicit corrective feedback is a common practice among teachers which is based on supplying the students with cues, hints and some other techniques that may guide them to identify and correct their own errors. This study aimed at investigating the impact of teachers’ implicit corrective feedback on improving and developing the students’ self correction abilities. In this research, we hypothesized that if the teachers use the implicit corrective feedback, students will be able to overcome and correct many errors by themselves. To check the validity of this hypothesis, two questionnaires were administered: one to 60 third year LMD students and another to 10 teachers of written and oral expression at the department of English in Mohammed Eseddik BenYahia University, Jijel. The obtained results showed that the implicit corrective feedback is an important technique for enhancing and developing students’ self correction capacities. Consequently, the predetermined hypothesis was confirmed to a large extent.