Macao Secondary School EFL Teachers' Perspectives on Written Corrective Feedback: Rationales and Constraints
作者机构:University College London and an MA graduate in Linguistics at Newcastle University in the UK
出 版 物:《教育技术与创新》 (Journal of Educational Technology and Innovation)
年 卷 期:2021年第1期
页 面:1-13页
学科分类:0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学]
主 题:beliefs practice written corrective feedback EFL teachers error correction
摘 要:Corrective feedback on writing(WCF)has been one of the most controversial topics in ESL/EFL *** the past decades,much has been disputed regarding the effectiveness and preferences of the quantity,focus,directness and source of *** so much uncertainty,the researcher set out to investigate how research-informed secondary school teachers in Macao reported their beliefs,rationales,practices and constraints of administering corrective feedback for EFL writing in Macao secondary *** secondary school teachers were recruited at a TESOL conference to conduct focus-group *** to previous findings,results suggest teachers had clear rationales as to their ways of practising ***,many expressed difficulties in acting according to rationales and *** their experience and knowledge,practical constraints such as school policies and teacher workload made it unlikely for them to follow their thoughts with feedback on *** study identified six sources of constraints that could prohibit practices and potentially reshape ones’beliefs,which sheds light on future directions of WCF research.