The Impact of Oral and Written Feedback on EFL Writers With the Use of Screencasts

This article, based on an action research study performed at a Colombian middle-sized private university, proposes specific strategies to provide feedback to English as a foreign language learners and uses a Web 2.0 tool called screencasting. The findings of the study suggest that the use of coded,...

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Autores:
Alvira, Roberto
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2016
Institución:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/66923
Acceso en línea:
https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/66923
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/67951/
Palabra clave:
37 Educación / Education
8 Literatura y retórica / Literature
Feedback
screencasts
screencasting
writing skills
habilidades de escritura
retroalimentación
videos en pantalla
Rights
openAccess
License
Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
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Summary:This article, based on an action research study performed at a Colombian middle-sized private university, proposes specific strategies to provide feedback to English as a foreign language learners and uses a Web 2.0 tool called screencasting. The findings of the study suggest that the use of coded, written, and oral feedback is widely accepted by students and yields positive results in the improvement of their writing skills at the paragraph level, and that the use of screencasting is a promising strategy that is motivational to students and increases the quality of their uptake.