Abstract :
Writing is a form of expression that requires logical reasoning to shape
thoughts and ideas in text. Writing skills are language skills that are difficult and
complex because it requires a wide of insight and extensive thinking. As secondlanguage errors began to be perceived as a necessary and natural process of
language learning, learners' errors and feedback to errors have been of great
interest to language teachers and researchers (Diab, 2005, Wang, 2010 : Katayama
: 2007). Lecturers' feedback is the most traditional and widely utilized way for
responding to students' writing. Corrective feedback is an activity that is carried
out to acquire information about common issues encountered by students? in
writing English. It is carried out to detect, classify, interpret, or characterize the
errors made by a person in writing English. This study aimed to describe the
implementation of corrective feedback on writing errors made by students and
students? achievement after having corrective feedback. The researcher took
lecturer and 25 students? of English education program in Third semester at
STKIP PGRI Sidoarjo as the subject of the study. The researcher gets the data of
the research trough observation checklist and questionnaire. The result showed
that both lecturer and students focus on correct word choice, punctuation,
grammar, organization, spelling. Circling and giving code are used by the lectures
as a mark of error correction. This study shows that the implementation of
corrective feedback can motivate students to be more active and creative in
writing skill. The questionnaire result shows by the percentage of students who
strongly agree is 59%, agree is 23%, neutral is 10%, disagree is 8% and strongly
disagree 0%. By using this technique, the students more aware of their error and
won?t repeat the same. Corrective feedback encouraged students? motivation in
writing. This research concludes that corrective feedback is an appropriate
approach to use in the teaching and learning process to improve students? writing
skill.