The Efficacy of Oral Corrective Feedback

By Melissa J. Enns In my last post, I emphsized the importance of providing language learners with oral corrective feedback (CF) and described two broad categories of feedback, prompts and reformulations, and their different types. I asked you to reflect on which strategies you use when giving CF. A few of you commented that during group work you …

Giving Corrective Feedback on Spoken Language Production

By Melissa J. Enns Recently, guest contributor Yerim Lee shared an insightful post on giving effective written feedback (you can read it here). Today, I'd like to continue in that vein and discuss verbal corrective feedback. Written feedback has its challenges, but it also has the benefit of premeditation; we can take time to put some …