The Effects of Coded Corrective Feedback on Students’ Writing Performance: A Scoping Review

The effectiveness of written corrective feedback, WCF, has been much disputed even till the present day. Various strategies of WCF are still being developing with the aim to enhance students’ writing performance especially in the English language. Coded corrective feedback, CCF, is classified as an indirect WCF method, and the studies of CCF are still limited despite more studies emerging in recent years. Most of these limited studies have found CCF to be effective, but a review of CCF studies has not been conducted to date. Therefore, this scoping review was conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) criteria with the purpose of determining the currently available information on the effects of CCF on students’ writing performance of the English language. A total of 161 citations were identified across three databases, and only 20 articles were qualified for this scoping review. Most of the studies found that CCF is generally effective in enhancing students’ writing performance, overall grammatical accuracy, target linguistic features accuracy, and syntactic accuracy in writing. A few of the studies also found out that CCF is able to retain its effect in the long-term. Current gaps and future directions for the study of CCF are also discussed in this article.