ADDRESSING CHALLENGES IN LANGUAGE TEACHING IN INDIA: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK IN ENHANCING LEARNING

Corrective feedback is a crucial aspect of language teaching, which aims to help students improve accuracy and fluency. While research on corrective has been conducted worldwide, there dearth empirical studies in the Indian context. Despite this gap, several suggest that practices India are based mainly traditional grammar-translation methods prioritizing over fluency rather than considering students' needs learning styles. Issues related include cultural factors, optimal timing, teacher beliefs, technology-mediated feedback, student motivation. Cultural factors such as societal expectations values can influence teachers' learners’ attitudes toward feedback. The timing providing ESL writing also an issue, effectiveness immediate versus delayed still unclear. Moreover, views may their need further exploration potential its effects motivation self-efficacy require (Doley, 2023). Overall, review highlights for more inform effective teaching enhance ELT country. Future should focus examining practices, identifying self-efficacy.