TEACHER’S FEEDBACKS ON STUDENTS’ WRITING ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION

Abstract

This study were aimed to find out the types of teachers‟ written feedback in writing which given by the teachers for grade 11, to find out the process of realizing feedback on students‟ writing analytical exposition text and also to find out the reasons why teacher realized those kind of feedback on students‟ writing analytical exposition text at grade 11 of SMK BBC Medan. This reserach was used descriptive qualitative method and the data were collected through documentation and interview. The data collected were analyzed qualitatively. The findings found that there were six types of feedbacks namely, direct feedback, indirect feedback, focused feedback, unfocused feedback, reformulation, and metalinguistics. In this case, teacher mostly used direct feedback for written corrective feedback. The teacher has process in giving the work to the students so that they can understand the using of text. The reasons why teacher used those kind of written feedback on students‟ writing was because it could the students have more vocabulary and the students didn‟t think more about what was the correct word. By using the direct feedback, the student can have more vocabulary on their next writing. The findings suggested that English teachers should give written feedback to students‟ writing test to enable them improve the skill.