ICT and Feedback Practices in the Lower-Secondary Foreign Language Classroom

TY - GEN

T1 - ICT and Feedback Practices in the Lower-Secondary Foreign Language Classroom

AU - Kjærgaard, Hanne Wacher

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - A central part of language teachers’ work consists in providing written corrective feedback for their students using well-known pen-and-paper practices, and they are often unsure of the return on their investment of time in this task. This article will describe the results of a survey among close to 300 Danish teachers of lower-secondary EFL aimed at uncovering their practices, not least the role of ICT in their work. The results indicate that they use ICT much less in this part of their work than in others, depriving both teachers and students of the benefits that technology can provide. The article also presents and discusses some of the advantages that may result from increasing the adequate uses of ICT in this aspect of (foreign) language teaching.

AB - A central part of language teachers’ work consists in providing written corrective feedback for their students using well-known pen-and-paper practices, and they are often unsure of the return on their investment of time in this task. This article will describe the results of a survey among close to 300 Danish teachers of lower-secondary EFL aimed at uncovering their practices, not least the role of ICT in their work. The results indicate that they use ICT much less in this part of their work than in others, depriving both teachers and students of the benefits that technology can provide. The article also presents and discusses some of the advantages that may result from increasing the adequate uses of ICT in this aspect of (foreign) language teaching.

KW - ict educational design

KW - Ict Integration

KW - Feedback

KW - Language and learning

KW - foreign language acquisition

KW - efl

UR - http://www.learntechlib.org/p/173077

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 978-1-939797-24-7

SP - 1057

EP - 1066

BT - Proceedings of EdMedia

A2 - Veletsianos, George

PB - AACE: Association for the Advancement of Computers in Education

T2 - EdMedia 2016 - World Conference on Educational Media and Technology

Y2 - 28 June 2016 through 30 June 2016

ER -