KOTESOL National Conference 2018
Workshop (45 minutes)
Stacey Christensen, Brigham Young University
Dynamic Written Corrective Feedback
Abstract
Many studies show that most ESL students pursuing advanced degrees at U.S. universities have a great desire to write error-free, and yet struggle to produce writing that is linguistically accurate and lexically competent. They want all their errors marked so that the written corrective feedback (WCF) can be used as a learning tool to improve their writing (Amrhein & Nassaji, 2010). Giving comprehensive feedback in a long writing, however, is a time-consuming process for teachers, and learners can feel defeated with the amount of feedback received, thus losing motivation for improvement.
Dynamic Written Corrective Feedback (DWCF) is an instructional strategy to improve the linguistic accuracy of ESL writers without encumbering teachers or learners (Evans, Hartshorn, McCollum, & Wolfersberger, 2010). This interactive strategy uses 10-minute paragraph samples which allow teachers to give timely, constant, manageable, and meaningful feedback to maximize the benefit of WCF. Several metalinguistic tools, such as error codes, tally logs, and error symbols, have been developed to enable students to identify the error types they frequently make and to track their progress through the course. The collected data also gives teachers an ability to focus on specific needs of the students.
This workshop will focus on how DWCF is successfully implemented to improve the linguistic accuracy of students at the high intermediate and advanced levels at an IEP in the U.S. Participants will leave the workshop with the strategic tools that make DWCF easy to implement in their own classroom to improve students’ linguistic accuracy.
Biographicals
Eunyoung (Stacey) Christensen is currently pursuing a master's degree in TESOL with an emphasis on language program administration at Brigham Young University (BYU). She is particularly interested in improving the linguistic accuracy of ESL students using CALL method. She also holds an MBA from BYU.
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