Module teaching and integrating language skills lesson 1

Example 3: Descriptive feedback, describing why the answer is correct.

First, the teacher comments on the answer with approval: yeah and that´s right, but second, will continue on the subject by explaining how this ending is often pronounced. In other words, he wants to expand the pupils´ knowledge on the topic. Furthermore, the answer is correct, but the teacher wants to explain this topic in greater detail. Few examples like these were found in the data, so one can say that it is not a very common strategy, at least in this teacher´s classes.
In example 4 below, one can see an example from the data where the teacher is helping the pupils. Most of the feedback listed as descriptive in the data actually consists of a dialogue that demands help from the teacher himself or the other pupils in the class. Often this help is guided through teacher: he directly asks help from the others, or then gives hints about the right answer in order to get the right answer from the pupil. In this particular example the class is talking about religions and the teacher asks one pupil what a Protestant is. The discussion followed shows that another pupil helps the first one and gives the right answer.