Since the emergence of the process-oriented approach to second language writing instruction two main questions have been what and how error feedback should be given to the students. The question of whether teachers should provide feedback on grammar in the writing assignments of English as a foreign language students, and if so how, has been a matter of considerable debate in the field of secon...

Live feedback systems have been proven to be suitable for teachers’ needs. Especially in classes with a lot of participants feedback in an electronic form can create additional value by getting feedback from all students. The live feedback system Tweedback incorporates three feedback possibilities. One form of feedback is Peer Instructions to test people’s knowledge using multiple choice questi...

This paper explores male and female students' and teachers' perceptions of the role of grammar instruction and corrective feedback. A questionnaire, administered to 60 male and female intermediate EFL students (30 males and 30 females) and 40 teachers (20 males and 20 females), elicited student and teacher perceptions concerning the role of explicit grammar instruction and corrective feedback i...

This paper describes the development and evaluation of a handwritten correction support system with audio and playback strokes used to teach Japanese writing. The study examined whether audio and playback strokes have a positive effect on students using honorific expressions in Japanese writing. The results showed that error feedback with audio has a positive effect on low-level students and th...

Feedback Discourse is teachers’ response to students’ learning performance, which plays an extremely important part in discourse, especially language teaching classes. Taking the videos of thirty-two English teachers middle school exemplary lessons competition as subjects, this study intended explore characteristics feedback discourse junior high from proportion types well structure discourse.T...

This study examined the extent to which treatment integrity of 4 special education teachers was affected by goal setting, performance feedback regarding student or teacher performance, and a meeting cancellation contingency. Teachers were trained to implement function-based treatment packages to address student problem behavior. In one condition, teachers set a goal for student behavior and rec...

For decades now, questions about the role of corrective feedback in second language acquisition (SLA) have been hotly debated, spawning a great deal of theoretical and empirical research. Although the facilitative role of corrective feedback in SLA has received some empirical support, the claims regarding its impact on SLA have yet to be fully or decisively substantiated. In order to move this ...

Most teachers give written feedback because it is a required deliverable, like a checkout assistant handing every customer the printed receipt, even though few use them. However there is no point in giving feedback unless the learner uses it: modifies or actively reappraises something specific as a result. This paper explores the theoretical and practical implications of taking this as the star...