Prologue: Journal on Language and Literature
Vol. 9 No. 1 (2023): Prologue: Journal on Language and Literature

Corrective Feedback in English Class for Adult Learners

Suzanna Widjajanti (Akademi Bahasa Asing Balikpapan)
Era Wahyu Ningsih (Akademi Bahasa Asing Balikpapan)



Article Info

Publish Date
28 Mar 2023

Abstract

The focus of this study was corrective feedback by the tutor in correcting learners’ speaking performance in the Small Talk program that is held at PT United Tractors, Tbk Balikpapan collaborated with the Foreign Language Academy of Balikpapan for 3 months. This study identified occurrences of the correction of speaking performance learner errors including using proper grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, and the way the tutor performed the corrective feedback. This study was descriptive qualitative research with participants numbered 15 learners and data were presented and analyzed inductively in terms of features and facts of the tutor’s teaching process. The result of the observation showed the tutor applied recast, elicitation, classification request, direct correction, metalinguistic, and repetition to respond to learners’ pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammatical errors during the learning process and based on the interview of two participants attended, they unanimously stated that in teaching and learning activities at the Small Talk Program, feedback is mostly needed in the form of corrections to errors made by participants

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jurnal_prologue

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Prologue: Journal on Language and Literature published by Faculty of Letters, Balikpapan University. It is published twice a year, namely March and September. It publishes papers in language and literature. The scopes of the topics include but not limited to (1) Literature; (2) Linguistics; (3) ...