Learners’ oral corrective feedback perceptions and preferences in Thai as a foreign language tertiary setting

Abstract

The goal of this research is to investigate the existence of perceptions and preferences among East Asian undergraduate students of Thai. To fill this gap, ninety-nine L2 learners having experience of studying Thai speaking courses at five universities completed an online questionnaire reporting on their recognitions and attitudes. The findings revealed that recast was the most frequently perceived strategy of oral corrective feedback (OCF) that Thai as a foreign language (TFL) students were provided. Explicit correction was the most favoured technique in TFL teaching situations. In a speech, they inclined to be provided with the error correction in private places and would like to be corrected by peers. Considering in terms of the nationalities. An analysis further suggested that some OCF opinions between Chinese and the Korean learners were similar; they tended to prefer clarification request and repetition techniques. In contrast, inattention to error, peer correction, and error correction in public were less preferable among them.

Keywords

• corrective feedback; perceptions; preferences; second language; East Asian students

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