Exposure to Corrective Feedback Strategies and Attitudinal Shift

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Reza Vahdani Sanavi ¹ , Majid Nemati ²

1 - Department of Foreign Language, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - English Department, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2013-12-13 Accepted : 2014-06-10 Published : 2014-07-01

Keywords: IELTS, CF Strategies, Direct Feedback, Indirect Feedback, focused feedback, unfocused feedback, reformulation, attitudinal shift,

Abstract :

Corrective feedback (CF) and its different types have long absorbed many scholars and practitioners. As Ellis (2009) mentioned some experimental studies need to be carefully designed to discover the relative effectiveness of each of these CF techniques. The goal of this qualitative study was to discover whether the employment of different CF strategies could bring about an attitudinal shift. To this end, 132 learners were randomly assigned to six different groups each receiving a different kind of corrective feedback. The participants' responses were compared before and after the treatment to find out how their attitude changed over the course of correction. The results suggested that different kinds of feedback strategies have their own proponents. The participants voiced their views on those feedback strategies. The implications of the findings are discussed at the end.