2.4. Overview of teachers immediate oral feedback in speaking lessons 2.4.1. Feedback in speaking lesson 2.4.1.1.

Definition of feedback So far, the term feedback has been used in many different fields such as biology, economics, government, education, etc. Feedback, actually, shed light on the nature in any mentioned fields. Recognizably, although feedback can be one of the extremely broad terms, within the scope of this study, the researcher tackles feedback with a pedagogical view. In the context of teaching and learning languages, there are a big number of feedback definitions. Little wood (1981) and Lewis (2002) both equaled feedback with telling learners about their progress and showing them their errors in order to guide them to areas for improvement. Different in words but similar in nature, Ur proposed that feedback is information that is given to the learner about his or her performance of a learning task, usually with the objective of improving this performance. 1 It is clearly seen that the definitions treated this terms under a broad point of view since they just indicated that learners are the ones to receive feedback without showing who the ones to give it are. However, in Ferris feedback was viewed as any response a teacher may give his or her students 2.

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Ur , P. (1996), A Course in Language Teaching Trainee Book. Cambridge Teacher Training and Development
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Ferris , Dana R. , ( 2009 ) Teaching College Writing to Diverse Student Populations , The Michigan Series on Teaching Academic English in U.S. Post-Secondary Programs