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Do Gender Differences Affect Foreign Language Anxiety and Preferences for Oral Corrective Feedback?

Cinsiyet Farklılıkları Yabancı Dil Kaygısını ve Sözlü Düzeltici Geribildirim Tercihlerini Etkiler Mi?

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591–608
Publication Date
2020-07-21
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As the take-home message, teachers need to be selective in their feedback choices and activities in reducing anxiety by taking gender differences in consideration.

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Objective & Hypothesis:This paper explores the extent gender differences affect foreign language anxiety and student beliefs about spoken corrective feedback.
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Key Findings & Data:A random sample of 100 Turkish students (50 males, 50 females) who were pre-intermediate level learners of English as a foreign language at a state preparatory school in Turkey completed two questionnaires which measured their level of anxiety and beliefs.
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Conclusion & Impact:As the take-home message, teachers need to be selective in their feedback choices and activities in reducing anxiety by taking gender differences in consideration.
🔬Design:Survey & Empirical Study
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⚙️Variables:yabancı dil kaygısı · konuşmada sözlü düzeltici geribildirim · cinsiyet etkisi

Abstract

This paper explores the extent gender differences affect foreign language anxiety and student beliefs about spoken corrective feedback. A random sample of 100 Turkish students (50 males, 50 females) who were pre-intermediate level learners of English as a foreign language at a state preparatory school in Turkey completed two questionnaires which measured their level of anxiety and beliefs. The female participants differed from the male participants in that they exhibited higher levels of anxiety, valued delayed feedback and preferred repetition more as the main error correction method. The males, on the other hand, rated elicitation as their favored method of correction and preferred to be given time to correct their errors themselves more than the females did. Both males and females viewed feedback, especially to their serious and individual errors, as a necessary component of the learning process and rated feedback given by the teacher more positively. As the take-home message, teachers need to be selective in their feedback choices and activities in reducing anxiety by taking gender differences in consideration.

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Bu çalışma, cinsiyet farklılıklarının yabancı dil kaygı düzeyi ve öğrencilerin sözlü düzeltici geri bildirim inanışları üzerindeki etkisinin boyutunu araştırmaktadır. Türkiye’deki bir devlet hazırlık okulunda yabancı dil olarak İngilizce öğrenen ön orta düzeydeki örneklemden rastgele seçilmiş 100 öğrenci (50 kadın, 50 erkek) kaygı düzeylerini ve inanışlarını ölçen iki anket cevaplamışlardır. Kadın katılımcılar, erkek katılımcılardan daha yüksek kaygı düzeyi göstermeleri, geciktirilmiş geri bildirime değer vermeleri ve tekrarlamayı ana düzeltici geri bildirim yöntemi olarak tercih etmeleri açısından ayrışmışlardır. Erkekler, öte yandan, söyletimi en çok istenen düzeltme yöntemi olarak değerlendirmişler ve kadınlara kıyasla hatalarını kendilerinin düzeltebilmeleri için zaman verilmesini tercih etmişlerdir. Hem erkek hem de kadın katılımcılar, geribildirimi, özellikle ciddi ve bireysel hatalarına verilen geribildirimi, öğrenme süreçleri için gerekli bir bileşen olarak görmüşler ve öğretmenin verdiği geri bildirimi daha olumlu değerlendirmişlerdir. Bu çalışmadan çıkarılacak ders, öğretmenlerin geribildirim ve kaygı azaltıcı etkinlik tercihlerinde cinsiyet farklılıklarını göz önünde bulundurarak seçici olmalarıdır.

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GECKİN, V. (2020). Do Gender Differences Affect Foreign Language Anxiety and Preferences for Oral Corrective Feedback?. Kuramsal Eğitimbilim Dergisi, Cilt: 13 - Sayı: 3, 591–608. https://ajindex.com/articles/71291

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