ERIC Number: EJ1376755
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 20
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What Type of Oral Corrective Feedback Do Chilean EFL Young Learners Prefer?
Aedo, Pablo; Millafilo, Claudia
HOW, v29 n2 p81-100 Jul-Dec 2022
This article presents the perspectives of a Chilean group of young learners of English as a foreign language with respect to the types of corrective oral feedback when making a spoken mistake and the reasons for their preferences. By means of a qualitative exploratory study, the views of 20 students were collected through a specially adapted scale and a focus group. The data from the scales were analyzed with descriptive statistics while the focus groups were interpreted with the content analysis technique. The results suggest that students appreciate teacher's correction and feedback when done carefully and clearly and considering students' affective domains such as beliefs and motivation. They also show a tendency towards the strategies of recast and repetition. On the other hand, they prefer less the use of metalinguistic feedback and elicitation strategies. In addition, this experience suggests that children are capable of reflecting on their learning processes, so it is urged that children be given an active participatory role in the development of methodologies and strategies to capture the voices of the real potential beneficiaries of these.
Descriptors: Oral Language, Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Preferences, Student Attitudes, Rating Scales, Student Motivation, Teaching Methods, Metalinguistics, Learning Processes, Metacognition, Video Technology, Elementary School Students, Educational Policy, Student Evaluation
ASOCOPI, the Colombian Association of Teachers of English. Cra 27 A #53-06, oficina 405, Bogota, Colombia. +57-2115018; Fax: +57-2115018. e-mail: asocopicolombia@gmail.com; Web site: https://www.howjournalcolombia.org/index.php/how
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Chile
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