This mixed-methods project was designed to answer four questions around the quality of oral production of French Immersion students: How does the nature of the interactions between intermediate-level FI students provide possibilities for them to engage in peer oral corrective feedback (OCF)? To what extent do students engage in peer OCF following targeted instruction in the technique? If peer OCF is taking place, to what extent is it having an impact on the accuracy of the targeted forms for correctors and correctees in terms of noticing and production? How comfortable (or willing) are students with providing and receiving OCF to and from their peers (both higher & lower proficiency)? A pre- & post-test, and questionnaire, format was used, and detailed analysis of participants in L2 interaction was carried out. The results indicated that the target structures and the OCF techniques may have been too cumbersome to elicit any improvement, or to elicit much peer OCF. However the conversation analysis indicated that in certain circumstances intermediate FI students could participate in sustained L2 interaction, and that within their interactions there were many openings for other forms of active assistance between learners.

abstract: This qualitative study follows an instructor and four Spanish Heritage Language (SHL) learners in an elementary-level, mixed Spanish course at a community college over the course of 11 class visits. In studying how language ideologies shape oral corrective feedback (oral CF) practices, data were collected through ethnographic observations (field notes, researcher memos), classroom audio recordings, and semi-structured interviews (student, teacher). Specifically, this study analyzes (1) language ideologies prevalent in the classroom context in relation to the conceptualization of errors, (2) the instructor’s goals for oral CF, (3) how the instructor provides oral CF and in what contexts, and (4) how the mixed class environment relates to oral CF. To do so, the data were analyzed via a bifocal approach in coding interview and classroom discourse (Razfar, 2003) and engaging in Critical Discourse Analysis (van Dijk, 2016) informed by frameworks in Linguistic Anthropology (Irvine, 1989; Kroskrity, 2004, 2010; Leeman, 2012) and Second Language Acquisition (Ellis, 2009; Li, 2017; Lyster & Ranta, 1997). The findings demonstrate how oral CF becomes ideologically charged in a classroom context primarily designed to impart foreign language instruction. Under the guise that SHL learners’ varieties represent negative characteristics (e.g., low socioeconomic strata, Mexicaness, immigration), oral CF is used to eradicate their Spanish varieties. Findings also illustrate the (in)congruency of the instructor and learners’ perceptions of oral CF and what takes place in the classroom. In some cases, SHL learners demonstrated language pride and resisted the imposition of a foreign variety but reported hegemonic beliefs about their own varieties. Exemplifying how the instructor and SHL learners contribute to the complex dynamics of ideologization of oral CF, this study advocates for the adoption of Critical Language Awareness frameworks (Martínez, 2003; Leeman, 2005) in mixed language classrooms that encompasses this practice (e.g., focus-on-form instruction). Additionally, in acknowledging that teachers and educational institutions play a key role in the (re)production of dominant language norms, this study calls for the creation of instructional guidelines for oral CF as a pedagogical practice. Such guidelines must include critical discussions with students about the relationship between “correct,” “correcting,” and “being corrected” and asymmetrical power relationships. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Spanish 2019

Thesis (M.A. (English Studies)) -- University of Limpopo, 2020 / This study explored the perceptions of students and lecturers with regard to written and oral corrective feedback in a first-level English course at the University of Limpopo. Specifically, the study was designed to establish the views of first entering students and lecturers around oral and written feedback. This study responds to widely-held views that students do not pay much attention to feedback, that even if feedback is provided, some do not know how use feedback systematically to improve their works, and that some lecturers are not investing sufficiently on provision of detailed, usable feedback. This study made use of classroom observations, questionnaires and focus group interviews to establish from students’ perceptions about oral and written corrective feedback in their studies and overall attainment of study goals. Furthermore, lecturers were also invited to participate in interviews to ascertain their perception on whether they consider written feedback essential and how it improves the students’ written English grammar. The study uncovered among others that students view oral and written corrective feedback as a tool that improves their grammar in English challenging long standing views that students are mostly interested in marks obtained in assessments. Data emerging from this study further suggests that participants view oral and written feedback as a device that helps students to improve in their usage of grammar and highlight the need to provide detailed, timely and constructive feedback in student’s academic work.

When supporting students’ language development, English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers use different scaffolding methods, such as Oral Corrective Feedback (OCF). This method’s purpose is to assist learners’ oral language skills, and there are various strategies that can be utilised in an input providing or output prompting manner. The aim of this study is to investigate Swedish EFL teachers in K-3 regarding their preferences for OCF strategies, the challenges they face in implementing these strategies, as well as adapting them to their teaching context. In order to examine this phenomenon, data was collected through conducting semi-structured interviews with teachers as participants. The results indicate that Recast is the most prevalent approach, whereas output prompting strategies pose the greatest difficulty for teachers. One of the output prompting strategies that were frequently mentioned as the least preferred was Metalinguistic Feedback. Moreover, teachers tend to adapt their OCF strategies and sometimes even choosing to not correct their students at all, depending onthe learning context and the individual student attributes. In comparison to previous studies conducted in other countries, different strategies were preferred such as Explicit Correction, which teachers in Sweden tend to refrain from using. However, the beliefs regarding output prompting OCF strategies were similar. Overall, teachers believe that providing OCF is an effective method for scaffolding young learners’ language development in the EFL classroom.

This study aims to expand on the existing research regarding teachers’ oral feedback practices in third turns of initiation-response-feedback (IRF) sequences. There is a gap in the existing research on oral corrective feedback practices in third turns of IRF sequences in the context of Swedish upper secondary school. The aim of this study is to fill some of that gap by providing results and insights from the Swedish context of upper secondary school. A classroom audio recording of a teacher’s classroom talk from an English class with second year students was subjected to conversation analysis to discover general patterns of this teacher’s oral corrective feedback practices in the third turn of IRF sequences. It emerged that implicit corrective feedback practices were frequent, with conversational recasts being among the most common types of feedback. The result of this study thus turned out to be in line with what previous research had found to be common oral corrective feedback practices among teachers.

English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers use different strategies to support language acquisition when teaching. This study focuses on one particular strategy: Oral Corrective Feedback (OCF). It is provided to support learners’ oral language skills, and takes numerous potential forms which can either be implemented implicitly and/or explicitly. According to many studies, recast is the type of OCF most commonly used by EFL teachers. Studies demonstrate however, that recast is the least effective approach for EFL learners’ uptake. The aim of this research study is to investigate how Swedish EFL teachers provide students with OCF. In addition, the intention is also to explore teachers’ and students’ perceptions of the usefulness of OCF for their skills development in English. The focus of this research study is on Swedish primary schools of grades 4-6. Two types of data-gathering methods were used in this study: interviews and observations. The results confirm that both explicit and implicit OCF was provided when observing the teachers’ approaches and strategies in classroom settings. Surprisingly, this research study reveals that recast was not favoured by the Swedish EFL teachers as they considered other types of OCF to be more beneficial to EFL classroom settings.

Submitted by Maicon Juliano Schmidt (maicons) on 2015-05-26T17:40:26Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tarsila Rubin Battistella.pdf: 1651260 bytes, checksum: 55c40c1fcee1f56ee7e51cc95b235b08 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-26T17:40:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tarsila Rubin Battistella.pdf: 1651260 bytes, checksum: 55c40c1fcee1f56ee7e51cc95b235b08 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-23 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / PROSUP - Programa de Suporte à Pós-Gradução de Instituições de Ensino Particulares / Esta tese discute o processo de ensino-aprendizagem de inglês como LE em um contexto universitário de formação de professores, a partir da interação em torno do feedback corretivo oral e dos desdobramentos da teoria sociocultural. Como aporte teórico para esta investigação, foram utilizados os princípios da teoria sociocultural (mediação, zona de desenvolvimento proximal e dynamic assessment), juntamente com outras perspectivas, tais como o feedback corretivo e os fatores afetivos no ensino-aprendizagem de LE. Verificamos os tipos de correção oral fornecidas aos aprendizes em sala de aula e o desenvolvimento potencial dos mesmos, assim como obtivemos informações quanto às percepções e aos sentimentos dos participantes no que diz respeito a esse fenômeno. Partindo das pesquisas desenvolvidas por Aljaafreh e Lantolf (1994) e Nassaji e Swain (2000) sobre o feedback corretivo, a teoria sociocultural e a mediação negociada entre os aprendizes, é tecida uma análise de como a teoria sociocultural pode contribuir para o processo de interação em torno do feedback corretivo oral. A pesquisa foi realizada com estudantes de nível pré-intermediário a intermediário de inglês, em uma instituição privada do interior do estado do Rio Grande do Sul, durante o primeiro semestre de 2013. Além dos aprendizes, futuros professores de inglês, a professora titular da turma também participou do estudo. A pesquisa foi orientada por princípios qualitativos, de perspectiva interpretativista na escolha dos critérios para elaboração e nos procedimentos para a coleta e análise dos dados. Alguns recursos quantitativos foram incluídos à pesquisa qualitativa para auxiliar na exposição e interpretação dos dados. Os alunos e a professora participaram de quatro etapas da pesquisa: gravação em áudio e vídeo das aulas; narrativas escritas; entrevista semiestruturada oral e sessão de visionamento. A análise dos dados focou na interação em torno do feedback corretivo oral, no ponto de vista êmico e na triangulação dos dados. Durante a análise e discussão dos resultados, foi possível perceber que os erros e a correção são parte do processo de qualquer aprendizagem, no sentido de promover o ensino-aprendizagem e o crescimento dos aprendizes, por meio da interação dialógica. Além disso, os resultados revelam que a correção é significativa no sentido de promover o ensino-aprendizagem de uma LE ao ser realizada levando-se em consideração os fatores linguísticos, cognitivos e afetivos dos aprendizes. Assim, a principal contribuição do trabalho foi oportunizar uma reflexão acerca do feedback corretivo oral por parte dos participantes, corroborando que ele pode ser beneficiado pela mediação na zona de desenvolvimento proximal do aprendiz e pelo dynamic assessment, tomando por base os desdobramentos da teoria sociocultural. / This dissertation aims at discussing the foreign language (FL) learning process in a pre-service teacher education, through the interaction around the corrective feedback and the sociocultural theory concepts. The theoretical basis for this research included the sociocultural theory concepts (mediation, zone of proximal development and dynamic assessment), together with other perspectives, such as the corrective feedback and the emotions in the FL learning. The oral corrective feedback which is provided to learners in the classroom and their potential development were examined. Thus, learners’ perceptions and feelings regarding this phenomenon were observed. Grounded on studies by Aljaafreh and Lantolf (1994) and Nassaji and Swain (2000) about the corrective feedback, sociocultural theory and negotiated meditation with learners, this dissertation analyzes how the sociocultural theory can enhance the interaction around the corrective feedback. The study was conducted with pre-intermediate and intermediate level students at a private institution in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, over the course of the first semester of 2013. Besides the learners - pre-service teachers - the classroom teacher also participated in this study. The research was guided by qualitative principles, from an interpretativist view in the choice of principles and criteria for the preparation and procedures for collecting and analyzing data. Some features of quantitative research were included in the qualitative research in order to help with the exposure and data analysis. The learners and the teacher participated in four research stages: audio and video recording of classroom interaction; written narratives; oral semistructured interviews and viewing sessions. Data analysis focused on the interaction around the corrective feedback, the emic perspective and the data triangulation. During the analysis and the discussion of the results, it was possible to realize that the mistakes and the feedback are part of any learning situation, in the sense of promoting learning and also learners’ development through dialogic interaction. Besides, the results show that feedback is important in promoting FL learning, taking into account learners’ linguistic, cognitive and affective factors. Thus, the main contribution of this dissertation was to shed light on the reflection about the oral corrective feedback by the research participants, corroborating that it can be benefited for the mediation around the zone of proximal development and the dynamic assessment, in the light of sociocultural principles.

By exploring previous research, this systematic literature review aims to shed light on the effectiveness of oral corrective feedback practices by teachers to students on oral proficiency with the focus on recasts and prompts. This systematic literature review also intends to shed light on the effectiveness of recasts and prompts compared with each other. This study reports on the results of 13 experimental or quasi-experimental studies that measured the effectiveness of prompts and recasts on language acquisition and the effectiveness of prompts and recasts compared with each other. In those studies, outcome measures such as grammaticality judgement tasks, oral production tasks, and written production tasks were utilized. The target structures of the included studies were different morpho-syntactical and phonological structures. The accounted findings of this study show that recasts are effective at increasing students’ oral proficiency in seven of thirteen studies and not effective in six of 13 studies. The reported results also demonstrate that prompts are effective at improving students’ oral proficiency in eight of ten studies and ineffective in two of ten studies. In eight of ten studies in which the effectiveness of prompts and recasts are compared with each other, prompts are more effective than recasts. However, recasts are more effective than prompts in two of ten studies. The reported findings indicate that the effectiveness of corrective feedback in general on language acquisition is uncertain and that prompts might be effective. In addition, the accounted results suggest that the effectiveness of recasts on improving students’ oral proficiency is doubtful. Moreover, the reported findings of this study also suggest the higher degree of efficacy of prompts over recasts.

No description available.

Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2018-12-19T13:18:32Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Aline Ribeiro Pessôa_.pdf: 1289142 bytes, checksum: f4e7f7469fb96423567c077ffa03dbf5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-19T13:18:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Aline Ribeiro Pessôa_.pdf: 1289142 bytes, checksum: f4e7f7469fb96423567c077ffa03dbf5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-10-31 / Nenhuma / O feedback corretivo oral, em uma perspectiva sociocultural, é entendido como um elemento central para professores de línguas estrangeiras ajudarem o aprendiz a alcançar a autorregulação. Uma vez que o feedback corretivo possibilita a construção conjunta de uma zona de desenvolvimento proximal (ZDP), enfatiza-se a importância de variar os tipos de feedback oferecidos, reformuladores e elicitativos, favorecendo a estes, pois ajudam o aprendiz a assumir a responsabilidade pela correção de seus próprios erros. Este estudo objetiva contribuir para o desenvolvimento profissional de docentes de inglês como língua estrangeira e, conforme a perspectiva sociocultural, abordar e desenvolver conceitos científicos sobre o feedback corretivo oral. A investigação envolveu duas professoras de língua inglesa de uma escola pública em uma pesquisa-ação colaborativa, durante um semestre letivo. O estudo explora a pesquisa-ação colaborativa, estreitamente relacionada aos conceitos socioculturais da mediação e da ZDP, e propõe a zona de desenvolvimento proximal de docentes de língua estrangeira (ZDPD-LE), definida como a distância entre o que um professor de língua estrangeira faz em sua sala de aula e o que pode fazer quando estrategicamente mediado. A pesquisa fez uso da triangulação para a coleta e a análise dos dados, os quais foram coletados por meio de entrevistas individuais semi-estruturadas, observações em sala de aula, gravações em áudio e vídeo das aulas observadas, sessões autoscópicas e uma entrevista em grupo não estruturada. A análise dos dados foi orientada pela análise de conteúdo e pela análise da interação. Os resultados evidenciaram que, antes da pesquisa-ação colaborativa, as duas professoras utilizavam, predominantemente, feedback reformulador, especialmente recast, e eram contrárias ao fornecimento de feedback corretivo imediato. Além disso, elas ofereciam apenas alguns dos vários tipos de feedback corretivo. Os resultados do estudo revelaram que as professoras participantes internalizaram conceitos científicos e, como consequência, alteraram suas compreensões e o modo como fornecem feedback corretivo oral. Os resultados desta investigação ressaltam a importância da implementação de oportunidades, tais como as propiciadas por uma pesquisa-ação colaborativa, para professores em serviço se engajarem e refletirem sobre suas práticas de feedback corretivo oral, como forma de apoiar e promover o desenvolvimento profissional de professores de inglês como língua estrangeira. / Oral corrective feedback, from a sociocultural perspective, is understood as a pivotal element in how foreign language teachers can assist a learner to achieve self-regulation. As corrective feedback enables the joint construction of a zone of proximal development (ZPD), it is emphasized the importance of varying the types of feedback offered, reformulations and prompts, favoring the latter, as they help learners assume responsibility for correcting their own errors. This study aims at contributing to English as a foreign language teachers’ professional development and, within a sociocultural perspective, intends to approach and develop scientific concepts about oral corrective feedback. The study engaged two teachers of English as a foreign language, from a public language school, in a collaborative action research, during a school semester. The study explores collaborative action research, as closely related to the sociocultural concepts of mediation and ZPD. It thereby proposes the zone of proximal foreign language teacher development (ZPFLTD), defined as the distance between what a foreign language teacher does in his/her classroom and what he/she can do when strategically mediated. The study used a triangulation design for data collection and analysis. Data were collected by means of semi-structured individual interviews, classroom observations, audio and video recordings of the observed lessons, teacher stimulated recall interviews, and an unstructured group interview. Data analysis was informed by using content analysis and interaction analysis. The results showed that prior to the collaborative action research, both teachers predominantly used reformulations, especially recast, and were against the provision of immediate oral corrective feedback. Furthermore, they provided only some of the various feedback types. The results of the study revealed the participant teachers internalized scientific concepts, and therefore, changed their understanding and the way they furnished oral corrective feedback. The findings of this study highlight the importance of implementing opportunities, such as those propitiated by a collaborative action research, for in-service teachers engage with and reflect on their oral corrective feedback practices, as a supportive and effective way to promote the professional development of teachers of English as a foreign language.