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The Efficacy of Oral Corrective Feedback

On September 23, 2017January 8, 2018 By Melissa J. EnnsIn Best Practice, Feedback, Language Education5 Comments

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 …

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Teachers are Learners Too: Identity and Linguistic Insecurity in the Second Language Classroom

On November 14, 2016January 8, 2018 By Melissa J. EnnsIn Language Education, Language Learning, Sociolinguistics4 Comments

Oh no. One of my students has just asked me a question about Spanish grammar that I can’t answer. How is it that I felt so confident and accomplished with my Spanish if I don’t even know whether to use ser or estar in this particular context?

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