Oral Corrective Feedback: What do Students Prefer and Why?

Why do People Prefer Historically Intended Functions?

When presented with a hammer that is being used as a paperweight, most people judge that its proper function is to pound nails in place rather than to hold down pieces of paper. The bias to assign proper function based on historically intended function rather than on manifest or current function, can be explained as a memory effect (we have learned that hammers are used to pound nails), as abdu...

Why do Varroa mites prefer nurse bees?

The Varroa mite, Varroa destructor, is an acarine ecto-parasite on Apis mellifera. It is the worst pest of Apis mellifera, yet its reproductive biology on the host is not well understood. In particular, the significance of the phoretic stage, when mites feed on adult bees for a few days, is not clear. In addition, it is not clear whether the preference of mites for nurses observed in the labora...

Online or Print: Which Do Students Prefer?

EFL TEACHERS’ BELIEFS ABOUT ORAL CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK AND THEIR FEEDBACK-PROVIDING PRACTICES ACROSS LEARNERS’ PROFICIENCY LEVELS

The present study investigated EFL teachers’ beliefs about oral corrective feedback (CF), their CF-provision practices across elementary and intermediate levels, and their beliefs-practices correspondence. To this end, the researchers conducted a semi-structured interview with the teachers and went on an overall forty-hour observation of their classrooms across both levels. The findings reveale...

Perceptions of Oral Errors and Their Corrective Feedback: Teachers vs. Students

Being interested in the whole process of teaching and learning a language, researchers and linguists have attempted to describe what errors and corrective feedback are, which together form an inevitable and indispensable part of instructed second and foreign language acquisition (Hendrickson, 1987). They have tried to define them in order to help learners and teachers in dealing with deviant fo...