Keywords
EFL
retroalimentación
Cuenca
Ecuador
escritura
párrafos Teacher mini conferences in class
EFL
feedback
Cuenca
Ecuador
writing
paragraphs
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Abstract
Hattie and Timperley (2007) define feedback as the result where an agent, such as a teacher, provides information on the aspects of the person”™ s understanding. The feedback strategy which was implemented in this study was teacher mini conferences in class. This strategy consists of pre-writing and idea generating activities where the teacher discusses with the whole class and illustrates what skill the students should use (Grabe and Kaplan, 1996). The study was carried out in a public school in the city of Cuenca, Ecuador with students learning English as a foreign language (EFL). It consisted of a target (n=36) and control group (n=31). The study was conducted during the first didactic unit (six weeks) of the scholar year 2019-2020 where the students produced a total of five paragraphs. The first paragraph served the purpose of the pre-test, while the last paragraph was the post-test. The Wilcox sign test was used for comparison between related samples (Pre - post) and the U-Mann Whitney test for independent samples. The data was processed through SPSS 25.
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