scholarly journals A Study Of Types Of Oral Corrective Feedback Strategies Used By Efl Teachers At Secondary Schools In Duhok City / Kurdistan Region Of Iraq

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Mohamed B. Kasim Al-Azzawi ◽  
Angela O. Zaya Al-Barwari
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Corrective Feedback ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Years Of Teaching Experience ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Oral Corrective Feedback ◽  
Feedback Strategies ◽  
Type Of School

This study aims to investigate types of oral corrective feedback strategies used by EFL teachers at secondary schools in Duhok city/Kurdistan region of Iraq. It also explores teachers’ attitudes towards the use of oral corrective feedback inside classrooms based on the three variables of gender, years of teaching experience, and the type of school (public or private). For these purposes, a classroom observation checklist was designed based on Panova and Lyster’s (2002) model of study in order to confirm the types of oral corrective feedback strategies used by the teachers, to highlight learners’ errors, and to examine the learners’ response to these strategies. Besides, a closed-ended questionnaire was distributed to the teachers to explore their attitudes about the effective use of oral corrective feedback. Fifty EFL teachers from twenty-five public and private secondary schools in Duhok were asked permission to attend their classes and observe the ways they correct their learners' errors. The data obtained from classroom observations and teachers’ responses to the questionnaire were identified, analysed quantitatively. The findings revealed that EFL teachers used different types of oral corrective feedback to learners’ errors. However, the most preferred correction strategy type used by them for correcting learners’ pronunciation errors was ‘recast’, and for grammatical errors was ‘metalinguistic explanation’. As for lexical errors, the strategy used most was ‘translation’. In terms of ‘learners’ uptake’, most of the corrective feedback provided resulted in ‘Repair’. Moreover, the study found out that EFL teachers have positive attitudes towards the use of oral corrective feedback. There were also no significant differences in their responses based on the three variables of gender, years of teaching experience and the type of school.

scholarly journals Exploring Native and Non-Native EFL Teachers’ Oral Corrective Feedback Practices: An Observational Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusuf Demir ◽  
Kemal Sinan Özmen
Keyword(s):  
Corrective Feedback ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Efl Context ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Oral Corrective Feedback ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Native English Speaking Teachers

Commonly defined as L2 teachers’ responses to learners’ erroneous utterances, oral correctivefeedback (OCF) is an interactional classroom phenomenon which frequently occurs in foreignlanguage classes and has gained growing momentum in SLA research in recent years.However, how OCF preferences of English teachers vary in terms of their native-nonnativespeaker status remains as an uncharted territory of inquiry specifically in an expanding-circlecontext. This study aims to reveal the differences between in-class OCF practices of native andnon-native English-speaking teachers (NESTs & NNESTs) in Turkish EFL context and toexplore the cross-cultural influences that might affect these practices. To these ends, structuredclassroom observations and interviews were conducted with seven NESTs and seven NNESTs.The findings of the observations showed that the NESTs’ and NNESTs’ in-class OCF practicesdiffered considerably in terms of their tolerance of errors, preferred OCF types, the amount ofOCF and different types of OCF to different types of errors. Moreover, the follow-up interviewfindings demonstrated some similar and different dispositions between the teacher groupsconcerning several dimensions (whether, how, when, and which errors should be corrected, andby whom) including the effect of teaching experience and teacher education on their OCF-giving patterns.

scholarly journals Oral Corrective Feedback Strategies in EFL. A Pilot Study in Chilean Classrooms

Elia ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 103-132
Author(s):  
María Fernanda Aranguiz ◽  
Angie Quintanilla Espinoza
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Corrective Feedback ◽  
Oral Corrective Feedback ◽  
Feedback Strategies

The relationship between university EFL teachers’ oral feedback beliefs and practices and the impact of individual differences

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dogan Yuksel ◽  
Adem Soruç ◽  
Jim McKinley
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Corrective Feedback ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Special Training ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This study investigated Turkish EFL teachers’ beliefs and practices about the aspects of oral corrective feedback (OCF). It explored the impact of individual differences, namely educational background, special training, and teaching experience, on the relationship between the beliefs and practices. Data on teachers’ practices were collected via 153 h of classroom observations from 51 Turkish EFL teachers at two different universities, and teachers’ beliefs were gathered by a task about OCF. The results showed that teachers’ beliefs and practices were consistent on the aspects of perceived effectiveness, grammatical errors, implicit and explicit feedback. However, their beliefs and practices were inconsistent regarding lexical, phonological errors, and timing of OCF. The results also revealed that of the three individual differences, teaching experience most impacted the consistency between beliefs and practices, thus showing the greater role of teaching experience over special training and educational background on the consistency between beliefs and practices about OCF.

scholarly journals EFL Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Oral Corrective Feedback: A Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-120
Author(s):  
Lizbeth Gómez Argüelles ◽  
Edith Hernández Méndez ◽  
Moisés D. Perales Escudero
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Corrective Feedback ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
College Level ◽  
Southern Mexico ◽  
Oral Corrective Feedback ◽  
Feedback Strategies ◽  
Teachers Attitudes

This paper reports a qualitative case study of college-level English as a foreign language teachers’ attitudes towards oral corrective feedback. Our goal is to characterize such attitudes considering a model which integrates cognitive, affective and conative components as well as different aspects of oral corrective feedback. Six English instructors working in English language teaching at a university in southern Mexico were interviewed. Directed qualitative content analysis shows that (1) participants prefer implicit corrective feedback strategies, and (2) considerations of students’ feelings guide their overall attitudes toward corrective feedback. The participants seem unaware of most corrective feedback strategies and consideration of students’ cognition is absent in the composition of their corrective feedback attitudes. This finding suggests a need for more theory-based corrective feedback training and practice.

Corrective feedback: Beliefs and practices of Vietnamese primary EFL teachers

2020 ◽  
pp. 136216882093189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuan Van Ha ◽  
Jill C. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Primary Schools ◽  
Classroom Practices ◽  
Corrective Feedback ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Classroom Observations ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Important Target ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Oral Corrective Feedback

This study investigates Vietnamese EFL teachers’ beliefs and practices regarding oral corrective feedback, exploring and seeking to explain some of the relationships between beliefs and classroom practices. Data were collected in primary schools in Vietnam, and consist of 24 classroom observations and interviews with six teachers. Overall, the teachers showed high levels of awareness of the benefits of oral corrective feedback. They nominated pronunciation errors as the most important target for correction in the primary context. In practice, although pronunciation and grammar accounted for the majority of the total errors, leading to the majority of total feedback moves, the frequency of feedback per error was much higher for vocabulary errors. Prompts were reported by teachers to be more effective and more favourable than reformulations, but this preference was not reflected in the classroom observations, in which a large number of didactic recasts were used. The observed discrepancies are interpreted in relation to contextual factors and the influence of different sets of beliefs on practices. It was also noted that the linguistic realizations of these teachers’ feedback moves contained some inaccuracies. Implications for educational practice are discussed.

scholarly journals An Exploration of Teaching Practices of Private, Public, and Public-Private EFL Teachers in Iran

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javad Gholami ◽  
Mehdi Sarkhosh ◽  
Heidar Abdi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Corrective Feedback ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Public High School ◽  
Private Language ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Efl Teachers

Abstract This study investigates the practices of public (high) school, private language institute, and public-private teachers. In particular, it aims at addressing the role of contextual factors, the variations teachers introduce to cope with them, and the degree of sustainable behaviour among these three groups of teachers. High school teachers consisted of those who taught only in high schools and the ones teaching both in high schools and private language institutes. For this purpose, classroom practices of 60 EFL teachers (N=20 per group) with 3 to 6 years of teaching experience and BA degree in TEF) were compared in terms of group/pair work, teacher talking time, L1 use, questioning, corrective feedback, and coverage of language skills. The findings of the study indicate that a significant difference exists among these three groups of teachers in terms of their practices. It is noteworthy that in the same teaching context of high school, the practices of teachers with and without private language teaching experience are significantly dissimilar except in the duration of pair/group work activities and the rates of repetition and explicit correction. This study suggests that high school EFL teachers with teaching experience in private language institutes subscribe more closely to the tenets of communicative language teaching and thus can act as powerful agents of sustainable language teaching in Iranian public schools.

Oral corrective feedback: Pre-service English as a second language teachers’ beliefs and practices

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Kartchava ◽  
Elizabeth Gatbonton ◽  
Ahlem Ammar ◽  
Pavel Trofimovich
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Corrective Feedback ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Pedagogical Beliefs ◽  
Esl Teachers ◽  
Oral Corrective Feedback ◽  
Second Language Teachers ◽  
Actual Teaching

This study investigated the relationship between pre-service English-as-a-second-language (ESL) teachers’ pedagogical beliefs and their actual teaching practices. To determine the nature of this relationship, 99 teachers-in-training with little or no teaching experience were asked to complete a questionnaire seeking information about their teaching beliefs, particularly about oral corrective feedback (i.e. teachers’ responses to students’ language errors). The teachers’ responses were subjected to an exploratory factor analysis which revealed several dimensions underlying their beliefs. To examine how these beliefs affect classroom performance, 10 of the teachers were first asked to indicate how they would correct language errors illustrated in hypothetical (videotaped) classroom scenarios and were then observed teaching an authentic ESL class. The classes were video-recorded and 30-minute teacher-fronted communicative segments from the lessons were analysed for the number and type of errors learners made and the teachers addressed. Results indicate a multifarious relationship between stated beliefs and actual teaching practices in that while the teachers corrected fewer errors than they believed they would, they preferred the same corrective techniques in both hypothetical and actual teaching situations. Most notably, the study suggests that the complexities of the language classroom and the pre-service teachers’ lack of experience at integrating theoretical knowledge and practical skills, lead them to behave overall as native-speaking interlocutors, not as language teachers. Implications for teacher training are discussed.

scholarly journals The Opinions of Teachers About the Innovation Level of Their Schools

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
Hüseyin Aslan ◽  
Fatma Kesik ◽  
Cevat Elma
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Administrative Support ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
T Test ◽  
Percentage Frequency ◽  
Years Of Teaching Experience ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
One Way Anova

This study aims to determine the opinions of teachers about the innovation level of their schools. The sample of this research includes 471 teachers working in primary and secondary schools in Sinop, a city in Turkey. “Innovative School Scale” developed by Aslan and Kesik (2017) was used in order to collect data in this study. Percentage, frequency, mean, standard deviation, T-test and one-way ANOVA were performed to determine teachers' opinions about the innovation level of their schools according to the demographic variables. The findings show that the opinions of teachers about the innovation level of their schools are quite high with a level of “often” in the dimensions of innovative atmosphere, administrative support and the overall scale and with a level of “sometimes” in the organizational impediments. While the teachers’ opinions indicate no significant differences regarding their genders, they show significant differences regarding their subject areas, years of teaching experience and teaching level of school. According to findings, branch teachers, teachers working in secondary schools and teachers having 21 or more years of teaching experience were found to have a higher level of opinions about the innovation level of their schools. The findings and suggestions obtained by the results are expected to contribute to the discussions and literature about increasing innovation level of schools.

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