Module teaching and integrating language skills lesson 1

Activity 2 Giving feedback
Objective: to raise students’ awareness of feedback giving
Time: 20 min
Materials: handouts
Procedure:

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  Ask students
  

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  Have you heard of the word feedback?
  
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  What do you associate with feedback?
  

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  Establish that feedback is constructive comments that one person receives from another (in our context it is mainly a student getting feedback from a teacher) and which usually serve as an action plan for improvement, that is why very often the word feedback comes with the word constructive and positive.
  
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  Ask students:
  

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  Do you simply mark or provide feedback on your students’ writing?
  
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  What do you think would be more helpful for students?
  
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  How often do you give positive (e.g. That’s an excellent idea!) and constructive (That’s a good argument but it needs a better support here. Why don’t you open it a little bit more? ) comments?
  

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  Now ask students in their groups to look at their assessment and turn their comments into action points and add some positive comments.
  
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  Invite a representative from each group to join a neighboring group with the feedback that they produced. Allow some time for sharing.
  
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  Invite comments from groups. Establish that feedback if given correctly motivates students and directs them in their writing.