Differentiated forms of feedback for writing and speaking skills in an output oriented approach - use of SpeakApps Tools

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Differentiated forms of feedback for
writing and speaking skills in an
output-oriented approach
Ronald Ohlsen
Jeroen van Engen

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Group / programme
› 3rd year students of Dutch from CUC
› 2 Semesters: 560 Contact hours / 570 Self-study hours
› Courses:
 Language acquistion (including speech therapy)
 Vocabulary acquistion
 History and culture
 Literature (early-modern / modern) and film
› From CEFR A2/B1 – to CEFR B2/C1 (including State Exam
Dutch)
› Website motivated students to showcase the learning
progress through digital products

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Blended learning approach
+

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Website output

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Teacher feedback Text 4
Peer feedback
Partial feedback (in class)
Text 1
Text 2
Text 3
Text 4
Text 1
Text 2
Text 3
Peer review
Editing
(Teacher feedback)

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http://erknederlands.org

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Overal spoken production

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Overall written production

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Written products
› Blogs, articles, interviews (1st Semester)
› Reports & essays (1st / 2nd Semester)
› Creative writing (2nd Semester)
Spoken products
› Presentations / Discussions / Role-plays
› Interviews (1st / 2nd Semester)
› Recitals (2nd Semester)
› Video’s (2nd Semester)

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Assessment criteria
› Vocabulary control
› Vocabulary range
› Grammatical accuracy
› Orthographic control
› Coherence
› Sociolinguistic appropriateness
› Phonological control
› Spoken fluency

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Feedback: in class
Peer feedback
› Texts were handed in for the first time by e-mail.
› Teacher unraveled the texts to a selection of sentences
which contained mistakes to be discussed in the group
› Then paragraphs were discussed in pairs
Teachers feedback
› Texts were rewritten and handed in for the second time
and teacher gave feedback

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Feedback: website
Peer feedback
› Revised texts were published on the website
› Students gave feedback through fivestar rating system
Teacher feedback
› Teacher gave feedback through fivestar rating system +
previously published texts were used to demonstrate ‘old
mistakes’

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Feedback
editing
writing
revising
publishing

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Feedback: in class
Peer feedback
› Example, own / pair performance, feedback with feedback
form
› Recording on-the-spot by voicerecorder / smartphone
› SpeakApps in Blackboard: Recording of own / pair
performance, feedback with feedback form
Teachers feedback
› Written / Spoken feedback with SpeakApps (Langblog)

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Feedback: website
Peer feedback
› Revised texts were published on the website
› Students gave feedback through fivestar rating system
Teacher feedback
› Teacher gave feedback through fivestar rating system +
previously published texts were used to demonstrate ‘old
mistakes’

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Website
› Webhosting by the university
› CMS: Drupal (drupal.org)
› Theme: Responsive Bartik
› Relevant modules: Drupal core, Chaos tools,
Charts, Date/time, Display suite, Wysiwyg
(editor), Media (e.g. Youtube, Soundcloud,
Flickr), Voting (Fivestar), Workbench and
Dashboard

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Profile page
My workbench

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My Edits
Create content
File list

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Feedback

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Speaking
› 1st Semester
Interviews with fellow language students in
Youtube
› 2nd Semester
Interviews with representatives of a political
party in Groningen in Youtube
Audio recording of their favourite poem in
Soundcloud

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Youtube

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Soundcloud

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Future
› Drupal 7/8 (mobile responsive)
› Feedback: Fivestar module / Comment module
› Editing modules (+ wiki content type)
› Workflow management system
› Embedded media (user owns his / her
content): Soundcloud, Youtube, Vimeo,
AudioRecorderField
› Quiz-module
› Drupal for Education

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Thank you!
› j.van.engen@rug.nl
› r.w.h.ohlsen@rug.nl