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AN ANALYSIS OF GOOD WRITERS STRATEGIES IN RESPONDING
TO TEACHER S WRITTEN FEEDBACK IN ACADEMIC WRITING
CLASSES

THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan

Alit Yulie Kristiningsih
112007100

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
SALATIGA
2012

AN ANALYSIS OF GOOD WRITERS STRATEGIES IN RESPONDING
TO TEACHER S WRITTEN FEEDBACK IN ACADEMIC WRITING
CLASSES

THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan

Alit Yulie Kristiningsih
112007100

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
SALATIGA
2012

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An Analysis of Good Writers’ Strategies in Responding to Teacher’s Written Feedback in
Academic Writing Classes.
Alit Yulie Kristiningsih
Abstract
Teacher’s feedback is widely seen in education as crucial for both encouraging and
consolidating learning (Brophy, 1981; Zacharias, 2007). Unfortunately, Conrad and Goldstein
(1999) found that students had difficulty with comments that are not explicitly pointed out. The
present study investigated the good writers’ strategies in responding to teacher’s written
feedback in Academic Writing classes. The participants consisted of ten Indonesian students in
the English Department of Satya Wacana Christian University who have taken the Academic

Writing classes. The data was collected from semi-structured interview, in which all of the
participants were individually interviewed about their strategies in overcoming the unclear
written feedback in Academic Writing classes. The result shows three major strategies in
responding to written feedback, they are Social/ affective strategies, cognitive strategies, and
metacognitive strategies. Briefly, this study found that nine students mentioned that they used
social/ affective strategies include conferencing with the teacher, and working with peers as their
strategies in handling with teacher’s written feedback. A cognitive strategy includes taking notes
and summarizing. Metacognitive strategies include self-monitoring. Therefore, this finding
suggested that those strategies help poor writers increasing their linguistic competence, verifying
grammar accuracy, and becoming creative thinker.
Key words: Feedback, Academic writing, Strategies