Influence Of Feedback To Compositions On The Improvement Of Writing Ability In ESL Teaching

Language is the most important means by which people communicate with each other, and it is also a prerequisite for them to take part in the community activities. With the globalization of public activities and economy, it is necessary to master a foreign language. ESL teaching in high school is an essential process to foster foreign language 。Among the four skills, (listening, speaking, reading and writing), writing is one of the concerns for ESL teachers in high schools, in teaching of writing, students' writing ability is the focus in teaching of writing。based on the researches and discussions about the feedback to the students' writings This paper tries to discuss about the relation between the feedback to writings and improvement of the writing ability, meanwhile, it tries to answer the following questions through the experiment:1. Which feedback will the high school students be favor of, grammar feedback orcontent feedback?2. Whether teachers' feedback has an effect on improving the writing ability of thestudents?3. How to perfect the feedback to English writing in high schools?Through the experiment on 73 students in the second grade of Shiyan middle school, we can conclude:1. Teachers' feedback to the students' composition (Grammar and content) has aneffect on improving their writing.2. The different methods of feedback have no much different effect on the resultsof composition.3. Many students did receive higher scores on the grammar and content of their rewritesthan on their original compositions without any intervention from the teachers.4. The students are favor of the feedback on grammar, especially the middle schoolstudents.5. Rewriting is an effective way to help students to give response to the feedbackfrom teachers.Moreover, through the finding of the questionnaire about the teachers' comments to the students, we find that the students hope to get systematic comments from teachers, which may serve as reference, but they have an aversion to Critical comment,which they think will discourage their desire for progress.This paper is made up of five chapters:Chapter One: Introduce the background and the significance of this research. Chapter Two: Introduce the historical and theoretical reviews relative to the presentresearch.Chapter Three: Investigations and Analysis Chapter Four: Suggestions and implications on teaching students to improve writingability。 Chapter Five: Conclusion.