Types of teacher’s corrective feedback on EFL students’ descriptive writing : case study at MTs Wahid Hasyim Pati

Corrective feedback has been studied by many language researchers. Previous study mostly investigated teacher’s and students’ perception toward corrective feedback. Finding out types of teacher’s corrective feedback on students’ writing is crucial but studies in this field particularly at junior high school level are limited. The researcher conducted this study to describe type of written corrective feedback used by the English teacher at Madrasah Tsanawiyah Wahid Hasyim Pati. This study was descriptive qualitative study. The source of data was students’ descriptive writing task. The researcher analyzed the students’ writing by using Rod Ellis theory. It was used to classify types of written corrective feedback on students’ descriptive writing. The result of the study shows that there are three types of written corrective feedback in students’ descriptive writing. They are direct corrective feedback, indirect corrective feedback, and reformulation. Indirect corrective feedback is type of feedback which is mostly applied by the teacher. Result of the study provides the description of corrective feedback types that can be used by educators to evaluate or consider their decision in applying corrective feedback.