Blog #7

Feedack throughtout my education has varied greatly depending on the teacher and the setting. Primary school feedback focused on the answer properly responding to a question, grammatical and spelling errors. Secondary school feedback feedback transitioned from simply correctly responding to a question to responding to specific prompts; in addition to using a vairety of sentences structures with new vocabuary. Instructors encouraged peer editing. Feedback addressed issues of poorly answering the prompt and lack of sufficient content. Postsecondary school feedback only addressed simple errors in the footnotes of a writing assignments. Instructors looked for a clearly stated thesis and efficient support in response to writing prompts. Feedback often consisted of instructors pointing out what information was necessary and unnecessary, as well as clarity, flow and understanding. I beleive that explicit feedback that addresses all aspects of writing is beneficia, but hard to accomplish. The best feedback is feedback mode, this where the instructor demonstrate to a student how to do something with a lot of oral feedback. Students can then ask questions and get immediate feedback. Feedback that overwhelmes the student and be seen as problematic. An anundance of error correction can discourage students; they need a balance of psotive and negative constructive feedback in order to succeed.
　
Based on the feedback that I received throughout my education, I feel that some forms of feedback would be appropriate for L2 learners. Depending on the instructor and level, I feel that L2 learners should receive the same feedback that L1 learners receive. This feedback should be modeled, if possile, to provide students with a visual of what they are expected to produce. I feel that feedback needs to be explicit, but not too overwhelming. It should be positive, but still address the issues.


The questions that come to mind when faciliting a student response, are: do they understand what I am asking, are they able to answer the question, and do they know the expectations and standards of L2 writing. For me to provide effective feedback I need to know what I want to them to be able to produce, what expectations I want them to meet, and what skills to teach them. I also feel that I need to know what key information their writing assignments should contain. The feedback that I provide should address the major issues and be constructive in guiding them towards the end goal.


I have always enjoyed peer feedback. In postsecondary school several of my instructors encouraged us to work together throughout the semester in order to complete our assignments. We had to give credit in our completed assignment to those that helped us and sometimes attach questions that arroused while doing the assignment. This was great for me, because I realized that the same things I struggled with so did other students. I don't have specific ideas for collaborative, because what works for one class doesn't necessarily for another. A question that I always ask myself is who to pair students with and what do I want them to accomplish from this collaborative work.