The Influence of Written Corrective Feedback on Two Iranian Learners’ Grammatical Accuracy

摘要

The purpose of this case study is to investigate the effect of explicit and implicit corrective feedback on learners’ grammatical accuracy. Two pre-intermediate male participants were chosen in a particular English language class. One of the participants was 22 and the other one was 21. One of the participants received explicit feedback after each guided writing practice .The other one received implicit feedback after doing the same thing. Simply put, students’ grammatical errors were corrected implicitly or explicitly in written form after each writing practice. Analysis of data showed that the participant to whom explicit feedback was given displayed more absorption of the grammatical feedback.