Different approaches
to the nature and
function of feedback
Approaches to the giving of feddback
The provision of assessment
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Written feedback
Clarifying personal attitudes
Correcting
mistakes in
oral work
Techniques of oral
correction
oral conections are
ussually provided
derectly by the
teacher
How the
correction is
expressed
Gently or
assertively,
tactfully
or
rudely.
Assessment
Gathering information
*Test: the usual criterion is
an arbitrary level wich the
leraner is expected to
have reached. *Other
sources -Teacher's
assessment -Continuos
assessment
-Self-assessment
-Portfolio
criteria
Having collected
the 'evidence' of
the lerarners'
proficiency in one
or more of the
ways described
above
Assessment grades
*Letters, words or
phrases *Profiles
most of the feedback we give
our lerarners is oingoing
correction and assessment,
directed at specific bits of
learner-produced language with
the aim of bringing about
improvement