Investigating teachers' attitudes towards the impact of explicit oral corrective feedback on enhancing english as a foreign language students' grammatical accuracy
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2017
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university of Oum- El- Bouaghi
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Grammar is considered as a crucial component of the process of learning the language. English as a foreign language learners face many difficulties in acquiring this linguistic aspect. These grammatical difficulties lead students to make many errors, especially when they speak in the classroom. The current study sought to investigate teachers' viewpoints towards the effectiveness of using explicit oral corrective feedback (EOCF) to boost EFL learners' grammatical accuracy. A total of 54 middle school teachers of Oum El Bouaghi district provided the relevant data. A descriptive method was conducted using a questionnaire as the main instrumentation to answer our research question: What are teachers' attitudes towards the impact of explicit oral corrective feedback on enhancing EFL students' grammatical accuracy? The results gained point out teachers' desire to correct oral grammatical errors. Although, the majority of them prefer to use implicit oral corrective feedback in doing so, almost all of the subjects believe that explicit oral corrective feedback has a positive effect in enhancing EFL students' grammatical accuracy
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Grammatical accuracy, Corrective feedback, Explicit oral