Teacher Corrective Oral Feedback in the Classroom

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...

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...

Classroom Provision of Corrective Feedback Revisited

The shift of priority in current second language teaching to boost the use of the target language for communication, the conception of error as natural product of language development that can be self-eliminated with the increase of the amount of exposure to the target language, and the existing problems with feedback provision as observed in the daily classroom practice have jointly given way ...