Effective Feedback

By:
Menna Elbashar
 Effective Feedback is Based on:
• Motivation and feedback: How implicit theories of intelligence predict L2
writers’ motivation and feedback orientation
• Author :Laurel Waller
• Role Reversals: A Case Study of Dialogic Interactions and Feedback on
L2 Writing
• Author WarrenMerkel
• Nonverbal behavior and corrective feedback in nine ESL university-level
classrooms
Author : Weiqing Wang, Shawn Loewen
• The effect of different types of corrective feedback on ESL student writing
Author: John Bitchener -StuartYoung - DeniseCameron
• Word Choice Errors in Chinese Students' English Writing and How Online
Writing Center Tutors Respond to Them
Author: Carol Severino and Shih-Ni Prim
• Responses to Error: Sentence-Level Error and the Teacher of Basic Writing
Dan Foltz-Gray
• Feedback on Developmental Writing Students' First Drafts
• Author: Beth Gulley
 feedback

Focus of Forms of Affect on ss

feedback Feedback motivation
 Focus of
Feedback
Linguistic
accuracy

Grammar Word choice

 Grammar
• According to the institute of Education, University of London, there is no
higher-order relation between the instruction of grammar and the quality
of writing
 Word Choice
• Reasons : translation - Register – context – idiomaticity ..)
• Explanation is more effective than direct correction
• Explanation will improve lexical as well as grammatical accuracy.
• SL teacher should have a working knowledge of the student’s first
language .
 Forms of
feedback

Peer/ Teacher Oral/ written

 Written/ Oral feedback
• Oral feedback allows students to express their intended meaning and
through this process both the student and the research improve their
understanding of the topic.
• Oral feedback gives the student to negotiate and discuss their work,
therefore their writing is more clear.
 Teacher / Peer
• Corrective Vs ( written feedback , teacher conference, No feedback)
• Feedback in areas ( past simple – prepositions – definite articles)
• Preposition : improvement showed with both written and conference feedback.
• Past simple: : improvement showed with both written and conference feedback.
• Definite articles: improvement occurred after 8 weeks .
• combined feedback option facilitated improvement in the more “treatable”, rule-
governed features (the past simple tense and the definite article) than in the less
“treatable” feature (prepositions). 
Influence of Students motivation
• Motivation toward written corrective feedback ( WCF)
• What do students think of their writing intelligence (Intrinsic Vs
extrinsic)?
• What is the relationship between beliefs about writing intelligence and ss
motivation?
• Helpful learning goals Vs performance goals.
 Suggestions
• Teachers should consider learners’ individual differences and different
learning context in order to adopt appropriate approach to give feedback
in a meaningful, timely, constant and manageable manner.
• Feedback should be modified according to teacher’s understanding of
individual learners’ motivation.
• Teachers should choose feedback type according to specific needs of
students and the requirements of the assignment.
•ESL teachers should be aware of the students’ first language in
order to understand their mistakes in word choice.
•ESL teachers should not treat all grammatical mistakes the same
since they belong to different domains of knowledge.
•ESL teachers should improve students’ understanding of
feedback by training them to give better feedback to their peers.