Correction and Effective Feedback

'I was making my homework yesterday.'

This is an example of

• L1 Interference

• Over-generalisation

• A slip

Answer explanation

'Ik was huiswerk aan het maken'. The verb to make is incorrect. It can be traced back to Dutch. The verb tense is also incorrect, but it is also incorrect in Dutch

'He has not visit his father in London since the start of the lockdown.'

This is an example of

• L1 Interference

• Over-generalisation

• A slip

Answer explanation

The student has learned to use the infinitive with a negation in the past tense: 'I did not visit him yesterday'. The student now applies this rule to all forms of the past tense.

Which of the following types of feedback proved most beneficial in Kluger and DeNisi's research?

• 1. comments and suggestions.

• 2. indications/score/marks.

• 3. written praise.

• 4. no feedback.

Delivery models are traditionally used to provide feedback (Boud & Molloy, 2013). An example is the IRF method, which stands for ____-_____-_____.

Students are designing a debate about Apartheid. Which types of feedback are most effective?

• Success Feedback

• Intervention Feedback

• Epistemic Feedback

Answer explanation

We discussed this during ELT 1

Success feedback = correctieve feedback

Intervention feedback = directieve feedback

Epestimic feedback = epistimologische feedback

Success feedback should not occur during speaking, because we aim for intelligiability over accuracy.

Students are going to write a book review. Their teacher shows them two reviews of exemplary practice. Students decide what is necessary to write a good review. This is called _____________________ in Hattie and Timperley's feedback model.

Answer explanation

This is called feed-up, because it directs students attention to what they must achieve.

True or false: students prefer immediate explicit correction.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

False: Leerlingen zelf blijken liever niet direct expliciet gecorrigeerd te willen worden, maar meer tijd voor zelfcorrectie te willen als het een fout betreft die ze denken zelf te kunnen verbeteren (Yoshida 2008 qtd in De Vrind & Janssen 2016 p.15).