The Effect of Direct Corrective Feedback on Students’ Writing of Recount Text

The purpose of this research is to determine the effect of direct corrective feedback toward students’ writing, especially in writing recount text. This is a quasiexperimental research. The students of grade ten at MAN 3 Payakumbuh were the population of this study. The sample was chosen by using cluster random sampling technique in which there were 38 students as the subjects of this research.Direct corrective feedback was applied in experimental class and indirect corrective feedback was applied in control class. Data analysis technique was processed by using t-test. The results showed thatthe average of students’ writing score in experimental classwas 69.10and 60.18in control class. Thus, It can be concluded that direct corrective feedback gives better effect than indirect corrective feedback toward student’s writing skill.