Providing written corrective feedback on students' writing assignments at IAIN Palangka Raya

Written Correction Feedback (WCF) is an essential aspect of any English language writing course. The study attempts to provide EFL writing teachers with some key considerations in providing written corrective feedback on English language learners' written assignments at English Department of IAIN Palangka Raya. To begin with, the researcher reviews reasons supporting the practice of giving feedback on student’ written errors. Next, the researcher presents categories of written errors and discussed different ways of offering corrective feedback. Finally, the researcher summarizes key considerations in giving feedback on student written errors. The number of the participants are 16 students who joined Essay Writing class. Based on the research findings, it was found that there are some errors made by the learners such as Verb tense (34 errors or 10.37%), Word order (42 errors or 12.80%), word choice (27 errors or 8.23%), spelling (53 errors or 16.16%), Article (37 errors or 11.28%), Preposition (59 errors or 17.99%), Pronoun agreement (19 errors or 5.79%), and Comma splices (57 errors or 17.38%). The study found some feedback types such as focused (43%), reformulation (26%), metalinguistic (13%), indirect (11%), and direct (7%)