(1190)MOTIVATING STUDENTS THROUGH SELF CORRECTION

摘要

Providing feedback is an ethical and professional responsibility of the teacher. Students seldom makegood use of the feedback and they often repeat the same mistakes in future writing assignments. Thispaper aims at investigating how a shift from the traditional technique of providing feedback on writtenwork to a group of adult learners has helped create learners who were encouraged to reflect on theteacher’s feedback, identify the mistakes and rewrite till they produce work which satisfied both theteacher and the learner. This paper highlights how students can be encouraged to improve theirwritten work by using “Self Correction” tool proposed by McDonough and Shaw (2003). The findingsare based upon a classroom of Business and Technical Writing of BSIS at Punjab University Collegeof Information Technology. The students were asked to correct their mistakes through self correction.The study reveals that the use of Self Correction enhanced the student’s linguistic competence. Inaddition, students were able to identify specific problems with their written work and this in turnmotivated them to revise their work until they were able to produce better quality work.