Contextualized Grammar in EFL Students’ Writings: A Case for Corrective Feedback

Abstract

in Cairo and categorized into two experimental groups studying a program designed for contextualizing grammar in writing. To assess the findings of that program and fulfill the purposes of the study, a writing test and its analytic scoring rubric was developed. The results of the study consistently demonstrated that both direct and indirect modes of feedback had high effectiveness in developing grammatical accuracy in writing as the participants who received direct or indirect corrective feedback showed better performance in the post-test than that of the pre-test. The study ended with discussing the findings reached, presenting recommendations, and suggesting some issues for further research.

The Effects of Contextualized Grammar Teaching on Developing EFL University Students’ Writing Skills and Grammatical Accuracy

“…Secondly, they were not studied by first-year students. Thirdly, these grammar items are found to be problematic structures for learners in the literature (Kamil, 2007;Sabir, 2008;Mahdi, 2018;Ahmad, Al-Tanany, and Musa, 2020;Altun and Dincer, 2020). Added to this, the participants' needs were assessed by performing a diagnostic grammar test prior to conducting the study.…”

“…It is proven that writing is the most difficult language skill for foreign language learners to attain. The skills needed in writing are highly complex to achieve (Rajabi and Dezhkam, 2014;Özdemir and Aydin, 2015;Ahmad, Al-Tanany, and Musa, 2020). There is a need to consider components of writing like organization, content, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and vocabulary (Rajabi and Dezhkam, 2014;Likaj, 2015).…”

“…There is a need to consider components of writing like organization, content, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and vocabulary (Rajabi and Dezhkam, 2014;Likaj, 2015). Although many skills are involved in writing, grammatical accuracy is at the top of students' writing (Macaro and Masterman, 2006;Ahmad, Al-Tanany, and Musa, 2020;Myhill and Watson, 2014). According to Fareed, Ashraf, and Bilal (2016), ideas are put into understandable sentences through grammar so they can clearly convey the targeted meaning in a written production as well as avoid misunderstanding.…”