Effective corrective feedback and its perception in acquisition of French as a foreign language; The case of Karatina University
Effects of perceptions and attitudes towards corrective feedback in learning French as a foreign language. The case of Karatina University,
Learning is a dynamic process where learners undertake repetitive decision making steps on various aspects of cognitive language transfers to the target language. Learners assess different lexical and appropriate structures, contextual and textual meanings and their implications. Since this is a metacognitive process, different learners develop perceptions and attitudes towards and against corrective feedback. Similarly, teachers explore various corrective methods and consequently
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Participants in this study were 200 students of Karatina University in Kenya. The students learn French as foreign language as a core course for their bachelor’s degree. Quantitative research method was used where a questionnaire was administered and after data analysis, the results obtained revealed significance results. It was observed that learners tend to focus and operate on different types of information in different ways and achieve understanding and produce language in different ways. Based on that, teachers can use different approaches in appropriating syllabi so as to influence and produce the most desired learning pattern. This means that French language learners prefer to receive written corrective feedback in order to understand where their errors and mistakes are, and to improve their grammatical and lexical writing accuracy. Limitation of this …show more content…
The study sought to have a reflection of the following questions in achieving its objectives, that is; ‘should corrective feedback be given?’ ‘Should teachers spend hours correcting learners’ writing products?’ ‘Which is the most effective corrective feedback?’ ‘When should corrective feedback be initiated and explained?’ The tentative answers to these questions will be discussed in chapter two. As there is almost a dearth of research on the effects of corrective feedback modes on learners’ writing accuracy in Kenya, in the present study the researcher attempted to
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These findings indicate how an engagement-based grading contract results in a stronger writing process that fosters iterative feedback. The greatest benefit is students' ability to create an ideal set of revision and feedback-seeking practices that will go beyond first-year
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Amy spoke "broken" language with her family, but in front of a group she used, as she put it, "Carefully wrought grammatical phrases. " The fact that she uses proper English when she needs to is evidence of never judging a person's intelligence by their use of her English. Many times, we are too close to our own writing to see the problems with it. Feedback is a useful tool to see which parts need to be developed, or which parts aren't clear enough.
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Not So Fast”, conducts her own study with a few colleagues to take notes on how students writing skills are changing. She decides to conduct another one twenty five years later to see how much the writing skills have changed since technology has been updated and became more available to students. She found that “students today are writing more than ever before.” Although we still have the same amount of writing errors as before, the patterns of errors are different. Many people argue that technology is only making our writing skill worse, this study helps to prove a different theory.
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Effective writing involves careful choice of words, their organization in correct order in sentences formation as well as cohesive composition of sentences. Also, writing is more valid and reliable than speech. But while speech is spontaneous, writing causes delay and takes time as feedback is not
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Feedback is a significant element in determination of education quality as well as in effective learning where it portrays the learning outcomes for students and the successes for the tutors. There are many aspects that concern educationists with regards to feedback but the relationship between perspectives of learning as well as teaching and feedback stands as the most important among them. Feedback should be conveyed in different modes in a learning environment but whatever mode chosen creates room for dialogue between the tutor and students. Therefore, it is only through feedback that the student engagement relationship with the feedback as well as the tutors’ perceptions of learning, teaching and assessment that such successes can be established.
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