Corrective Feedback and Teacher Development

Corrective Feedback and Teacher Development

Motivating the Unmotivated: Making Teacher Corrective Feedback Work

It is often wrongly assumed that the provision of teacher corrective feedback naturally entails learners' attendance to and application of it, but learners have repeatedly been reported not to pay attention to teacher feedback due to lack of motivation and the distracting effect of the grades they receive. The present study was an attempt to tackle this problem. To do so, the technique named Dr...

Does Learner Motivation Impact Pronunciation Gains in the Light of Teacher and Peer Oral Corrective Feedback?

Almost in every stage of their language learning process, the learners have motivation for what they do and receive a negative or positive feedback for it. The current study was after finding the would-be effect of motivation on 58 elementary EFL learners’ pronunciation gains successive to teacher and peer oral corrective feedback. To this aim, two intact groups at elementary level of proficien...

Oral Corrective Feedback and L2 Vocabulary Development: Prompts and Recasts in the Teens ESL Classroom

This research examines how teens learn L2 vocabulary when affected by different types of oral corrective feedback during a controlled classroom interaction. The study employed post-test design. Pre-Intermediate teens ESL learners (N 30) in an institute were categorized into three groups: prompts, recasts, and control. In the treatment stage, a four step vocabulary activity was provided to promp...

The Effect of Different Types of Teacher Written Corrective Feedback on Iranian EFL Learners’ Writing Accuracy

This research is a quasi-experimental study investigating the effect of different types of teacher Written Corrective Feedback (WCF) on Iranian EFL learners’ writing accuracy in using two functions of English articles (the first mention and anaphoric reference) and simple past tense (regular and irregular). Ninety-four Iranian learners of English were assigned into three experimental groups of ...