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Feedback is one of the most important teacher-student interaction in any learning environment. This is especially true in effective language classrooms. By using appropriate language and feedback approaches, you will be able to create safer and more productive English learning environment for your learners. This module will help you explore goals and different feedback strategies in English to foster communicative language development in your learners.

By the end of the module, you will be able to:

• understand what to do after tasks or lessons to check comprehension and increase students’ learning

• use appropriate teacher talk for feedback depending on different learning goals

• correct students' errors with different feedback strategies.

Click here to download the Module 4 Packet.

4.1 Watch

Explore ideas for checking comprehension and providing feedback by watching three videos.

4.2 Read

Explore ideas for checking comprehension and providing feedback by reading at least two articles.

Articles

Article 1: Progress Check

This article offers simple strategies for teachers to regularly use progress checks during instruction to evaluate students' understanding.

Source: American English resources. (n.d.). Strategy three: Progress checks. https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/promoting_learner_engagement_week_3.pdf

Article 2: The Importance of Feedback by Sandy Millin

This article highlights the need for providing appropriate feedback to students when engaged in different types of tasks.

Source: Millin, S. (2015, March). Sandy Millin: The importance of feedback. British Council. https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/sandymillin/sandy-millin-importance-feedback

Additional Resources

Checking comprehension by Clare Lavery

Source: Lavery, C. (n.d.). Checking comprehension. British Council. https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/checking-comprehension

A Strategy for Giving Corrective Feedback to English Language Learners by Shveta Miller

Source: Miller, Sh. (2020, April 27). A Strategy for Giving Corrective Feedback to ELLs. Edutopia. https://www.edutopia.org/article/strategy-giving-corrective-feedback-ells

4.3 Search

Explore more teaching resources about checking comprehension and providing feedback .You can also search these websites for more teaching resources:

• British Council: Teaching secondary

• Edutopia: Professional Learning

(Hint: Try using these keywords: checking comprehension in English, giving feedback in ESL)

4.4 Think

How do you give feedback to your students? Do you use different feedback strategies for different needs? What are some of the goals that you have when you give feedback or correct the students’ language errors?

4.5 Create

This module introduced several different ways to provide corrective feedback. Based on your preference, choose one of the following tasks:

1. Are there any feedback strategies presented in this module which you have learned for the first time? If so, which ones? Create a list and describe how you would use these strategies with your learners.

OR

2. Are there any feedback strategies that you currently use, but are not presented in this module? What are they? Create a list and describe how you would use these strategies with your learners? Do these feedback strategies focus on correcting form or improving communicative skills?

Consider your teaching context and learner characteristics when thinking about this topic. Also think about if these feedback strategies focus on correcting form or improving communicative skills.

Note: This will be added to your Portfolio.

4.6 Share

Share in the group chat one of two feedback strategies that are currently used but not presented in the module, or a strategy that you might try after watching the module videos and or reading the article. You can create a word document, PDF, or a simple PPT slide.

You may use the following message as a template:

Example

Hello, Colleagues! The feedback strategy I want to share is called ___________________________________________________________________. This activity is effective because _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. (Be sure to attach your activity file.)

4.7 Apply

After you share your feedback examples, read through your colleagues' posts in the group chat. Find at least one or two that you can use in the next class.

Consider these questions when selecting your colleagues examples to apply in your classroom instruction:

• Which of the suggested ways of giving feedback do you think can be adaptable to your teaching context? Why and why not?

• How did the other teacher use it and what made these strategies effective?

OR

• If possible, record one of the lesson parts that you have taught this week using your camera or cell phone. Write which feedback strategies you have used, and how the students responses were, and how to improve your feedback in the future.

4.8 Reflect

Write 1-2 paragraphs to reflect on Module 4 (300-500 words). You may use what you have created, shared, and applied in the previous tasks.

Note: This will be added to your Portfolio.