The Effect of Written Feedback on Students’ Motivation towards the Writing Skill.

Abstract

Teachers‟ written feedback is an essential element for managing accurately the process of writing. Clearly, the fact of getting students highly motivated to produce an appropriate piece of writing is primarily restricted by an effective written feedback to be provided by teachers. So, based on a similar condition, students‟ responses are differently being taken. Basically, the current study is conducted as an attempt to substantially accomplish the aim of investigating the impact of teachers‟ written feedback on students‟ motivation and attitudes towards the writing performance. In order to collect the required data, two research means were involved: a students‟ questionnaire and a teachers‟ questionnaire. The first one is tailored for a randomly selected sample which is composed of seventy second year students of English from the whole population; whereas, the second one is distributed to ten teachers from the Department of English at Mila University. The obtained findings revealed that teachers‟ written feedback has an effective impact regarding the improvement of students‟ writing proficiency. Also, it is indicated that the examined sample of students positively respond to their teachers‟ given written feedback. These findings, in turn, confirm that teachers‟ written feedback can increase students‟ motivation towards the writing skill.