ชยาภรณ์ เคารพไทย. Teachers' Beliefs and Practice Concerning Feedback Strategies. Master's Degree(Applied Linguistics for English Language Teaching). King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi. : King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, 2005.
Teachers' Beliefs and Practice Concerning Feedback Strategies
Abstract:
This study aims at surveying what strategies teachers believe they use in giving
feedback, what strategies teachers actually use in giving feedback and what is the
relationship between the strategies teachers believe they use and the strategies they actually use in giving feedback. The subjects of this research were six teachers who taught Fundamental English II (LNG102) in semester 1/2005 at the Department of Language Studies, School of Liberal Arts at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT). In this study, the researcher observed each of them one time for about 100 minutes. The six subjects
were asked to answer the ranking scale after finishing teaching. The result of the study showed that some of the feedback strategies in teachers' beliefs
match the actual strategies they used, but some of the beliefs do not match the feedback strategies that the teachers used in the classes. It can be seen that what teachers believed and actually used vary depending on an individual teacher. In addition, there are some relationships between teachers' beliefs and actually use of giving feedback. Some feedback strategies such as zero feedback and repeating student utterance, are used frequently in actual practice more than teachers believe because those strategies need little conscious effort. They do not require much teachers' thinking process. On the other hand, summarizing strategies is used less in actual practice because this strategy needs a great deal of conscious effort. The causes of the differences might come from the lack of the ability to cope with the realities of the classroom. Therefore, teachers should set up discipline in the classroom, balance the rapport between teacher and students and be life-long learners in order to help them develop their teaching. The
results in the study might be useful for other teachers who would like to develop
themselves in terms of giving feedback in the classroom so that they are able to use feedback strategies as intended.