scholarly journals Written Teacher Feedback: Student Perceptions, Teacher Perceptions, and Actual Teacher Performance

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Zhan
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teacher Perceptions ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Teacher Feedback ◽  
Writing Teachers ◽  
College English ◽  
Content Organization ◽  
Writing Instructions ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Language Writing

<p>This study sets out to investigate a teacher’s and her students’ perceptions of written teacher feedback in a college English as a foreign language (EFL) writing class in China. Essays, questionnaires, and interviews were employed to identify the types of feedback given by the teacher, the perceptions and preferences of students and the perceptions of the teacher. The teacher and her six students were interviewed, and sixty two students completed the questionnaires. The results are that the written teacher feedback covered content, organization, vocabulary, grammar and mechanics, and students reported that they benefited most from feedback on organization, which was focused on by the teacher but not specific enough and in a small amount. Moreover, the preferences of students were not expected by the teacher. Foreign language writing teachers were suggested to communicate more with their students about their feedback practices, and be aware of students’ perceptions and preferences, so that their writing instructions could be more effective.</p>

scholarly journals Direct Teacher Corrective Feedback in EFL Writing Class at Higher Education: What Students Perceive

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Sabarun Sabarun
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Corrective Feedback ◽  
Teacher Feedback ◽  
Efl Writing ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Language Writing ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Academic Year

<p>The study is aimed at describing the students’ perception of direct teacher corrective feedback in a foreign language writing class. It is descriptive quantitative research, employing questionnaires and observation as research instruments, which was conducted with 20 students of the fourth semester English department students of Palangka Raya State Islamic Institute of 2018/ 2019 academic year. The findings revealed that, firstly, in terms of the perception of students’ attitudes toward direct teacher corrective feedback, 75 percent of participants felt that they agreed to receive direct teacher corrective feedback on language form, content, and organization. Their preference for the area of corrective feedback in language forms was 85 percent while the organization was 65 percent. Secondly, dealing with the students’ perception on direct teacher feedback, 90 percent of students argued that they felt satisfied when they got direct teacher feedback. 85 percent of students perceived that their teacher’s feedback helped them improve their writing, and 90 percent of them realized that their teacher’s feedback made them feel confident in producing a better draft. Finally, most students responded that they appreciated the teacher’s feedback. In addition, the students believed that direct teacher feedback improved writing especially on grammar accuracy and organization.</p>

Digital stories: Bringing multimodal texts to the Spanish writing classroom

ReCALL ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Oskoz ◽  
Idoia Elola
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Writing Classroom ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Digital Story ◽  
Language Writing ◽  
Multimodal Text ◽  
Digital Stories ◽  
Mode Size ◽  
Oriented Activity

AbstractDespite the availability and growing use of digital story software for authoring and instructional purposes, little is known about learners’ perceptions on its integration in the foreign language writing class. Following both a social semiotics approach and activity theory, this study focuses on six advanced Spanish learners’ perceptions about the production of a digital story in which they integrated a variety of modes (written, oral, images, sounds) and manipulated the semiotic resources within each mode (size, color, lines in the image mode), to convey meaning. Analyzing participants’ reflections, questionnaires, and online journals, results highlight learners’ (a) interpretation of the tools and artifacts and their effect on their understanding of a final product, (b) connections between short-term goal-oriented actions and the longer-term object-oriented activity of developing a multimodal text, and (c) linguistic reorientations when creating a digital story.

scholarly journals The Effect of Online Feedback Types on Foreign Language Writing

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 733
Author(s):  
Xiaoling Liu ◽  
Changping Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Peer Feedback ◽  
Teacher Feedback ◽  
Foreign Language Writing ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Language Writing ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Online Teacher ◽  
Online Feedback

In this study a comparison is made concerning the effect of online teacher feedback and online peer feedback on foreign language writing and the learners’ attitudes toward online feedbacks. To address the issues, an experiment is carried out between two university classes, who received online teacher feedback and online teacher feedback respectively. Based on the analysis, the major findings are obtained as follows. Firstly, the writing in each group has been improved significantly after the application of online feedback. However, no significant difference is shown between groups A and B. Secondly, students in both groups can incorporate feedback into their revisions, though there exist some differences in the number of successful revisions and kinds of revisions between the two groups. Finally, both online teacher feedback and online peer feedback are very well received by most students respectively. The research findings indicate that online feedback should be adopted in foreign language writing teaching.

scholarly journals Implication of Output Hypothesis on Teaching College English Writing

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 198
Author(s):  
Honglan Wei
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
College English ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Teaching College ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Output Hypothesis

In recent years, with the development of the research on the Output Hypothesis, many researchers and ChineseEnglish teachers have paid attention to this hypothesis. Since writing is considered to be a way of output on the fieldof second language acquisition, teachers in college have begun to apply Swain’s “Output Hypothesis” to teachingcollege English writing. It does work but still remains problems. Therefore, this paper will introduce the existingproblems of applying the output hypothesis on the writing class in our college, based on the interview byinterviewing six seniors majoring in English from different classes in our Foreign Language College. Also, this paperwill provide some suggestions on these problems existing in teaching college English writing.

scholarly journals EFL Students’ Perceptions of Teacher Feedback and Intra-Feedback in Writing Essays

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-49
Author(s):  
Maryam Kazemi ◽  
Shirin Abadikhah ◽  
Mahmood Dehqan
Keyword(s):  
Peer Feedback ◽  
Teacher Feedback ◽  
Alternative Form ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Efl Writing ◽  
Content Organization ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Efl Writing Instruction

This study examines EFL students’ perceptions of teacher feedback and intra-feedback in writing essays in an EFL university context. Traditionally, teachers who were considered more knowledgeable provided feedback to students' writing. Recently, peer feedback is considered as an alternative form of feedback, which involves a dynamic process of reviewing and discussing one another’s text in a writing class. Intra-feedback, another form of peer feedback, is a reviewer-oriented practice in which two reviewers discuss their comments provided individually on the composition of another student. This paper investigates 21 EFL students’ perceptions of teacher feedback and peer feedback using intra-feedback technique. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected using a questionnaire and follow-up semi-structured interviews. The results of the questionnaire indicated that students perceived teacher feedback to be most useful in improving the content, organization and language of their essays. From the interviews with the students, their preferences toward feedback provider, feedback focus, feedback provision and intrafeedback inclusion were elicited. Some pedagogical implications for the EFL writing instruction can be made including creation of opportunities for students to become aware of effective reviewing techniques, improvement of peer feedback quality and increasing students’ confidence and critical thinking.

scholarly journals Interaction in collaborative writing between international and domestic students in an Indonesian university

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwi Rahayu
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Structural Organization ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
Domestic Students ◽  
Lexical Choice ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Language Writing ◽  
Write Language ◽  
Spoken Interaction

This research investigates verbal interaction in collaborative writing between students from two countries with different L1 when writing an academic essay in a foreign language writing class. Eight students from Indonesia and China participated, and were divided into Indonesian-Indonesian pairs and Indonesian-Chinese pairs. Using the method of qualitative content analysis, the transcripts from their communication were coded inductively and then categorized. The findings denote that there are three categories in their spoken interaction: what to write (ideas), where to write (structural organization), and how to write (language-related). Similarly, all pairs focused their discussions on ‘what to write’ (ideas to be written in the essays). However, Indonesian-Indonesian pairs also discussed ‘the language-related aspects’ mostly about lexical choice and the meaning, more than the mixed pairs. The Indonesian-Chinese pairs conversed, in most of their time, about the content through sharing, explaining, and negotiating their ideas. As the implication, in order to produce an essay with the same length and type, the mixed pairs executed more time in their spoken interaction.

scholarly journals Paying attention to identity in advanced EAP writing class

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 315-328
Author(s):  
David Camps
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Private University ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Foreign Language Writing ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Writing Course ◽  
Language Writing

The present article discusses how students in the advanced EAP (English as a foreign language) writing course at a private university in Mexico City become aware of choosing different identities in a written assignment, and how this decision can help them deal with the course requirements. After addressing the issue of identity in class and carrying out activities to develop social identities, and collecting samples of their writing, the students were questioned about their decision of projecting their identities in their papers in order to find out whether the understanding of the importance of identity in academic writing and its projection in their written essays would facilitate its writing. In addition, it was deemed interesting to learn about whether they found it easier to meet the demands and conventions of that particular essay by being aware of the possibilities of constructing their identities.

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