Turkish EFL teachers' perceptions towards feedback on writing

Providing written feedback has a vital impact in improving student writing and on student learning. Rea-Dickens (2006) states that feedback is valuable in identifying learners' strengths and weakness and guiding them to the next steps Thus, this study was conducted to find out the perceptions of English language teachers towards written feedback in Turkey. An online survey was used to collect the data. 157 English language teachers who work in different schools and have different teaching experience filled in the survey voluntarily from various cities of Turkey. The results of the study showed that teachers have positive perceptions towards providing written feedback. However, only half of them use process based writing in their class and they provide feedback to same points both in the earlier and later drafts. Majority of them prefer to give evaluative feedback.