• Nastaran Mehrabi

  Author

This study was conducted to investigate the impact of metalinguistic and learners’
uptake feedbacks on second language writing. To do so, 90 female Persian-speaking EFL
learners studying English at Gooyesh Language Institute were chosen as the participants of the
study. Then, they were randomly assigned to one of the three groups, a control (group A) and
two experimental groups (Metalinguistic and Uptake). At first, a pre-test was given to students in
the first session and the students wrote a paragraph about a given topic. Then, they were taking
the writing course and the first seven chapters of Zemach and Rumisek’s (2003) Academic
Writing: from paragraph to essay were used as the main course book taught to students in tensessions.
Finally, One day after the experimental intervention ended, the post-test was
administered to all participants in order to test the hypothesis of the study. Then Analytic Scale
for Rating Composition Tasks by Brown and Bailey (1985) was employed for the scoring
procedure (by three raters). At the end, appropriate statistical operations, including t-test, were
used to analyze the data. The results indicated that metalinguistic and learners’ uptake
feedbacks are effective on second language writing.

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