Shaping the Way We teach... Learner Feedback

[Khalil Zakari]

One important distinction to make when giving learner feedback is that of Formative vs. Summative evaluation. Formative evaluation is a way of giving students feedback along the way.
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[Yamina Bouhaddioui]

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[Yamina Bouhaddioui]

Different learners have different learning strategies.Error making is not only a learning strategy but also an evidence that learning is taking place.Learners put hypotheses to test,and depending on the nature of feedback,they either confirm or reject them. The locus for eliciting data is the classroom.Those errors are used by the teacher as a measure to evaluate the degree of achievement made by the learner.As the purpose of formative assessment is to enhance learning,not to allocate grades,teachers shoud give positive feedback and enable students to receive constructive guidance about how to improve.

[Hk]

Even if virtually all kinds of informal assessment are, or might be, formative, they have as their primary focus the ongoing development of the learner's language. So when we give our learners a comment or a suggestion, or a call to an error, that feedback is offered in order to improve the learners' language ability.

[Hk]

Research is L2 assessment has provided us, we EFL/ESL practioners, with the following understanding that the key to such formation of learners' competencies and skills is the delivery (by the teacher) and internalization (by the student) of appropriate feedback on performance, with an eye toward the future continuation (or formation) of leraning.

[Hk]

There is also this aspect of ongoing evaluation when it is formative rather than summative. The formative evaluation evaluates the students in the process of forming their own competencies and skills with the goal of helping them to continue that growth!

[Khalil Zakari]

Peer Feedback
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[Hk]

I do agree w/ you that formative valuation is pedagogically more valuable than the summative one, especially for L2 learners.

[Hk]

Formative and summative feedback are jsut quantitative tools for assessing EFL/ESL learners. What about peer-feedback ??

[Khalil Zakari]

Within the framework of Assessing Learning Outcomes... The learner s feedback is data... How I am doing as a teacher?