Students’ Perceptions Toward Lecturers’ Feedback In Advanced Writing Class

Abstract

Writing is a skill that help students to communicate and express their ideas and experiences in written from.  It is difficult to students to master it because of lack of vocabularies, grammar, content, organization, mechanics and language use. One of the ways to help these difficulties is providing lecturers’ feedback. Feedback used by the lecturers to assist the students to improve their writing. This research was intended to find out how the fourth-semester students of English Language Education Study Program of ULM perceive the feedback given by the lecturer in Advanced Writing class. Descriptive qualitative was used as a method in this study. Data were collected from written documents and interview. Data were about perceptions of the tenth students toward lecturers’ feedback in an advanced Writing class. Result of this study showed that feedback from lecturer could be in written, oral and computer-mediated. The feedback was given by the lecturer in terms of content, grammar, organization, mechanics and vocabulary. Finding also showed that students have good perceptions toward lecturers’ feedback because it can help them correct their mistake, encourage them to write better and increase their motivation. The students felt happy, cared, motivated, challenged and felt supported by the lecturer after they got feedback. However, other students felt discouraged and sad when receiving oral feedback because it made them felt ashamed to their classmates. Finally, the researcher suggested that in delivering feedback, the lecturer should know students’ character to make it easier to give feedback.