• Saeed Ahmad

  Author

• Mehmood Ul Hassan

  Author

• Muhammad Babar Qureshi

  Author

• Maryam Imtiaz Qurashi

  Author

The current study is designed to find the comparative effects of direct feedback
method and indirect feedback method of error treatment on Urdu EFL learners’ writings at
intermediate level. To find out the comparative results about these two treatment methods, 46
students having Urdu as their mother tongue were divided into two groups. Errors in writings of
one group were treated by direct feedback method while indirect feedback method was adopted
to treat the errors of the other group. Repeated measure experimental research design was used
to find the accuracy in students’ writings. The study revealed that both methods helped the
students to decrease the errors and created accuracy over the time but direct feedback method
yielded better results in comparison to indirect feedback group. Comparative effects of two
methods on error categories showed that for verb errors, article errors and sentence structure
errors direct feedback method was more helpful. While for noun ending errors, wrong word
errors, indirect feedback method of error treatment was more useful.

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