this study is a typological description of written formative feedback in an efl context in iran. twenty m.a. students of tefl participated in the study. they were required to summarize a scholarly article in each session on which the instructor would provide written corrective feedback (cf). written formative comments were extracted, coded, and categorized into various types, such as asking for...

This paper describes the development and evaluation of an online handwritten feedback-giving support system in learning Japanese writing . First, twelve Japanese language teachers were asked to evaluate the usability of the system . Then the study examined students’ perceptions on the handwritten feedback in writing practice . The results show that the system is helpful for teachers to give han...

Obesity is the most common chronic pediatric disease in westernized, especially low socioeconomic societies. We previously demonstrated the beneficial effects of a kindergarten dietary-physical activity intervention applied by the kindergarten teachers, on nutrition and physical activity knowledge and preferences, fitness, and BMI (Body Mass Index) percentile, even one year after the end of int...

there is no doubt that augmented feedback has an important role in improvinglearning. however, it is the content of the feedback which is challenging. the aimof the present study was to examine the effect of feedback on successful versusunsuccessful trials on simple and complex tracking tasks. for this purpose, 48undergraduate right-handed male and female students of hakim sabzevari teachertrai...

This research investigates pre-service teachers’ perceptions regarding the efficacy of feedback on their micro-teaching activities. During a 16-week semester, nine teachers were observed and activities video-recorded. After activities, they asked to reflect own about received micro-teachings. In addition, after each micro-teaching, participate in an interview focus group different types feedbac...

This research chiefly focused on the application of mitigation strategies and traditional form of feedback in writing development of the fifth semester University students majoring in TEFL and English Translation fields based on Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory in general and the notion of “Zone of Proximal Development” in particular. To that end, this study relied on a pre-posttest experimental...

Research has focused on increasing the treatment integrity of school-based interventions by utilizing performance feedback. The purpose of this study was to extend this literature by increasing special education teachers' treatment integrity for implementing antecedent and consequence procedures in an ongoing behavior support plan. A multiple baseline across teacher-student dyads (for two class...

Large-scale environmental epidemiologic studies often rely on exposure estimates based on linkage to residential addresses. This approach, however, is limited by the lack of residential histories typically available for study participants. Our objective was to evaluate the feasibility of using address data from LexisNexis (a division of RELX, Inc., Dayton, Ohio), a commercially available credit...

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...