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Publication Date: 2016
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The Impact of Oral and Written Feedback on EFL Writers with the Use of Screencasts
Alvira, Roberto
PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, v18 n2 p79-92 Jul-Dec 2016
This article, based on an action research study performed at a Colombian middle-sized private university, proposes specific strategies to provide feedback to English as a foreign language learners and uses a Web 2.0 tool called "screencasting." The findings of the study suggest that the use of coded, written, and oral feedback is widely accepted by students and yields positive results in the improvement of their writing skills at the paragraph level, and that the use of screencasting is a promising strategy that is motivational to students and increases the quality of their uptake.
Descriptors: Action Research, Oral Language, Feedback (Response), English (Second Language), Web 2.0 Technologies, Second Language Learning, Writing Skills, Writing Improvement, Student Motivation, Private Colleges, Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, Educational Technology, Second Language Instruction, Writing Evaluation, College Students, Qualitative Research, Questionnaires, Content Analysis, Grounded Theory
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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