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Vol. 4 Issue 11 – Video: TEDxAsheville – Justin Purnell – Teach the world online

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ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#11 | March 12, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036

Purnell is the CEO of Teach The World Online, a charitable organization that offers free education via Skype to students around the world who benefit from English language lessons taught by American volunteer teachers. Purnell travels regularly between Haiti and other countries where he trains indigenous teachers and set up new internet schools. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Christopher Purnell Foundation, which performs a variety of charitable endeavors in the Himalayan region of Nepal. He is a graduate of Appalachian State University in Boone, and has worked as director of student programs at Christ School, a preparatory boys school, in Asheville. Website: www.teachtheworldonline.org (more…)

Vol. 4 Issue 11 – Video: British Council – Teaching Speaking Techniques (John Kay)

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A video from British Council - John Kay talking about Teaching Speaking Techniques

Vol. 4 Issue 11 – Research Paper: ‘Corrective Feedback And The Students’ Uptake’ by Mastaneh Haghani

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ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#11 | March 12, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036

Mastaneh Haghani is a PhD student of TEFL at Islamic Azad University of Science and Research Campus, Tehran, Iran. She is a member of English Translation Faculty at Islamic Azad University of Tehran North Branch, Iran. Her areas of interest are second language acquisition, theories of learning and syllabus design.

Abstract

Among different types of feedback, corrective feedback has been recognized as a useful tool which can be used by teachers to draw the learners’ attention to the salient features of the language they are learning. This study probes into the effectiveness of different types of corrective feedback and the frequency of their adoption by an English teacher. Besides, the learners’ uptake as a response towards the teachers’ corrective feedback and as a determinant factor for the efficacy of the teacher’s corrective feedback was also examined. Nine sessions of interaction between the teacher and her learners were audiotaped and analyzed. The findings revealed that implicit corrective feedback seemed to be more efficient in pushing the learners to repair their erroneous utterances. Among different types of implicit corrective feedback elicitation proved to be the most effective form of corrective feedback.

Key terms: corrective feedback, uptake, elicitation, recast, interaction (more…)