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- PublicationRestrictedTeacher response to student writing: a Singapore study(1996)Chee, Yeung WaiL1 and L2 studies examining teacher response to student writing found that teachers focused more on the form than the content of students' essays. This had the effect of reinforcing the notion of revision as "error correction" in students. In Singapore, writing research has covered a range of research interests but less attention has been directed to the actual responses that teachers are making on students' writing. This academic exercise attempts to fill that gap. The present study investigates the responding strategies of writing teachers using the process-oriented approach to teach writing in Singapore's upper primary classrooms. The study's purpose is to examine the effect of teacher responding strategies on the revision practices of students. It analyses teachers' written feedback on students' writing and also, the ways in which students handled the feedback they received. The results of the present study indicate that teachers in Singapore respond, much as teachers did in some other studies (e.g., Searle and Dillon 1980; Zamel 1985), by largely ignoring the meaning-related problems in students' writing. The prescriptive nature of teacher responses to both form and content results in students becoming unwilling to make substantial changes at the content level when they revise. Despite using a pedagogic approach that emphasizes writing as process, teachers' responding strategies have reinforced in students the traditional view of writing as product. The study suggests that certain contextual factors, particularly the policy adopted by individual schools regarding writing assignments, have a powerful influence on writing pedagogy and teacher responses to student writing.
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