Module teaching and integrating language skills lesson 1

Handout 3. How do we give feedback?
Giving feedback is giving information ю students about their learning. Feedback can focus on students' language or skills, the ideas in their work, their behaviour, their attitude to learning or their progress. Sometimes we give feedback to the whole class, at other times we give feedback to small groups or individual students. The purposes of feedback are to motivate students and to
help them understand what their problems are and how they can improve.
We can give feedback to individual students (Individual feedback) or groups of students (group feedback). When students give feedback to one another, this is called peer feedback. Feedback can be oral or written.
Feedback can be linked to formal or informal assessment and can be given to students in the classroom or during individual meetings. We can also write regular feedback in the form or comments, grades or marks on a student's record sheet. The student can keep this sheet in their portfolio or we might keep it with our records of their overall progress and achievement. We can use this feedback when we make our end-of-course assessment.
Peer feedback is useful for all students. The students who give the feedback reflect on the work their classmates have done. The students who receive feedback are given information on how they can improve. The students are often guided by a feedback observation sheet. Young students, though, are not able to give very detailed peer feedback because they are not yet able to think about their classmates' work very carefully. Peer feedback can have a positive effect on classroom dynamics and can help to train students in skills they need to become autonomous.
Students can also give teachers feedback about the lessons, activities and materials. They can tell us when they like what they are doing and when they are not so interested in the materials or activities, or when they are having problems with the language. They can also make suggestions for materials and activities to use.
Activity 1. What are your beliefs about how we structure and manage writing lessons? Take this short quiz to find out. Write ‘yes’ or ‘no’ next to each statement, then check your ideas with the answer key below.