Lailatul Musyarofah, Slamet Setiawan, Mister Gideon Maru
This paper aims at exploring supervisor and supervisee attitudes concerning written feedback in thesis writing. This is a content analysis using documentation and interview to collect the data. There were four sets of thesis drafts, four thesis supervisors, and ten supervisees as the sources of the data. Attitudes concerning written feedback are seen from the manner, timing, form, function, and area. The manner in this study is defined in three channels: manual, electronic, and combination. Most supervisors provided written feedback manually even though most of them are IT-literate and young aged. Regarding the timing of providing written feedback, most supervisors preferred on the spot written feedback. That is why all supervisor-supervisees have a certain schedule for thesis supervision and thesis writing conference. The form of written feedback is the next aspect this study is concerned. It is found that comments and marks are dominantly used by the lecturers to provide written feedback. The function of written feedback was dominated by correction followed by criticism, praise, and suggestion. The area which the lecturers were concerned about most was the content followed by the form. Supervisors have positive attitudes in providing written feedback, otherwise, some disheartening written feedback is still provided. Regarding supervisee attitudes, it is found that supervisees accepted all kinds of supervisors' attitudes and treatment to them as far as they were supervised. In an inferior position, students were passive even some critical opinions should be considered for the next thesis supervision process. © 2021 Asian E F L Journal Press. All rights reserved.
Universitas Negeri Surabaya, Universitas PGRI Delta, Sidoarjo, Indonesia; Universitas Negeri Surabaya, Surabaya, Indonesia; Universitas Negeri Manado, Manado, Indonesia
