Improving Students’ Academic Writing through the Implementation of DRCOFEE (Direct Regulated Corrective Feedback): Prototype Testing

Abstract

This research examined the effectiveness of DRCOFFE in improving students’ writing. DRCOFEE is an instructional model designing to teach English writing for academic purposes by considering the existence of constructivism view. self-regulated learning and written corrective feedback method. The subjects involved in this study were 70 students of Faculty of Islam Religion. University of Muhammadiyah Palangkaraya in academic year 2021/2022. Their writing scores as the primary data in this research were analyzed through repeated measure Two-Way Anova with 2x3 Factorial Design. The research findings showed that (1) there is a significant effect from the implementation of DRCOFEE to improve students’ writing, (2) students’ written compositions based on their level of self-regulated learning (high-low) show no difference, (3) the interaction of DRCOFEE model and students’ self-regulation simultaneously gives improvement on students’ writing.