La retroalimentación correctiva directa metalingüística

Abstract

The central topic of this thesis is the debate on whether corrective feedback can be effective to treat errors in writing of English as a foreign language. This study was dedicated to obtaining relevant data that would give more certainty to one of the debaters as well as to measuring the influence of a type of corrective feedback in the development of learning English as a foreign language. It was believed that direct metalinguistic corrective feedback with examples could be effective to be able to build the appropriate knowledge that would allow the correct use of some prepositions of English in the written expression. In order to test this belief, a study was conducted where some students in fourth semester of the Programa de Extensión Universitario de Lenguas of the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, “Francisco García Salinas participated.  In this study, some of the participants´ written texts were used to select the focused prepositions, which were object of corrective intervention. These texts were also used as a means to select the control group and the treatment one. After the selection, direct metalinguistic feedback with examples was provided to the treatment group and the individuals made the corresponding corrections. After two months, a multiple choice quiz was administered and the participants were asked to write about the same topic. The results of both groups were compared, resulting in confirmation of the hypothesis.