The Implementation of Computer-Mediated Corrective Feedback to Enhance Students’ Writing Narrative Text Ability

Corrective feedback (CF) is a practice which commonly happens in
education field, where the learner elicits the comment from the teacher. One
of the most interesting feedbacks in this era to be applied in teaching
English is “Computer-Mediated Corrective Feedback” by using computer
(MS.Word). The first is the “track changes” feature of Microsoft Word 2010
which double strikes through deletions and marks insertions in a different
color. The second is recast feedback while the third is metalinguistic
feedback which is a comment or information to the learners or students
regarding linguistic errors they make in students’ work based on writing
aspects. This research focused on analyzing the implementation of CMC
feedback from the writing task of 30 grade X students from tourism and
accounting class in SMK Swasta Tunas Karya Batang Kuis. This research
involved interview of 2 English teachers. The researcher used qualitative
method to conduct this research. There were two kinds of instruments used
in this research. There were documentation and interview. From the result, it
shows that Track changes feedback type outperform Metalingustic and
Recast Feedback types. Track changes feedback may narrow the gap
between explicit or implicit feedback because it can be provided in both
ways. It is also found that the implementation of CMC feedback has
significant role as strategy to help enhance students narrative writing abiliy
and was really effective for the students’ writing skills improvement.