2. Is the food alright? Feedback in
the ESL classroom
3. What are the similarities and
differences between how a waiter
asks for feedback and how a teacher
conducts it?
Please type your ideas in the chatbox!
4. Similarities
•Waiter: “Are you enjoying the meal?
•Teacher: “Are you enjoying the activity/lesson?”.
• Customers complain food is cold or bland.
•Students that the activities are boring.
•The waiter might bring the wrong dish
•Teacher may prepare wrong activity
•Both waiter and teacher must react to keep customers happy.
•Customers fill in a comments card, ss give us feedback at the
end of the activity, month.
5. DIFFERENCES
Oral comments tend to be less truthful than those written down-more time?
In a restaurant the feedback goes from the customers to the
waiter/waitress.
A customer usually goes to a restaurant now and again.
A student comes to class twice a week. More or less truthful?
7. Ways to get feedback orally
•Teacher: “Did you like the lesson/activities today?”.
Yes/no questions not effective
1) Questions in pairs or groups
Share orally or hand in?
•The thing(s) I enjoyed most in this/last weeks lessons was/were…
•The thing(s) I learnt this/last week that I did not know before was/were….
•The thing(s) I am going to do to help me remember what I learnt this/last
week is/are….
(Harmer, J: The Practice of English Language Teaching, p397)
8. 2) Technology
• Student diaries: excellent tool for getting ss thoughts on learning and
what motivates them. See Noreen Lam’s talk at TESOL Spain
Conference, 2012
• Survey monkey: useful for feedback questionnaires.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/
Class dojo (http://www.classdojo.com/)
• Great for behaviour and feedback.
• Motivating- avatars
• Parents involved!
10. Feedback from the teacher
2/3 ss per lesson
Handout ss can look at at home
Personalised
feedback at end
focus on what ss can do well too!
Name and date
Rosa, 09/05/13
Language to work on
Irregular past tense forms
Activity performance
Difficulty with pronouncing
contractions- I’ll
Excellent during mingle
activity
Listening was quite good
although found it hard to pick
up specific details
New vocabulary learned
microwave, break down,
cheat on someone
Language used
well
“It’s used for
cutting paper”
What will you
do if it’s raining
tomorrow?”
Pronunciation
problems
millionaire,
series,
Vocabulary used well
Mansion, swimming
pool, I’ll kill him!, I’m
not so sure..
To improve
Practise pron of
tricky words
Review irregular past
tenses by using mec-
3.com/ih and workbk
exercises.
Please replace the IHWO logo in the bottom left corner with your school’s if you can .
Put session or section title in top left and then content in text box. Remember animation doesn;t work in Blackboard, so you need a new slide for anything you want to appear on top of a slide.
Put session or section title in top left and then content in text box. Remember animation doesn;t work in Blackboard, so you need a new slide for anything you want to appear on top of a slide.
Put session or section title in top left and then content in text box. Remember animation doesn;t work in Blackboard, so you need a new slide for anything you want to appear on top of a slide.
Please replace the IHWO logo in the bottom left corner with your school’s if you can .
