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Learner feedback and its effects in communication tasks: a pilot study1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Stephen J. Gaies
Stephen J. Gaies
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University of Northein Iowa
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Abstract

This article reports on a pilot investigation of learner feedback and its effects on teacher/ learner interactions in second language learning. In twelve ESL (English as a Second Language) dyads and triads, tapes were made of the performance by the participants of a pair of tasks in referential communication. In these tasks, the teacher described verbally a series of six graphic designs in such a way that the learner(s), who had the designs reproduced on a sheet of paper, could determine the order in which the designs were described. Data analysis involved classification of both learner feedback and teachers' post-feedback responses.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , fall 1981 , pp. 46 - 59
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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