TEACHER FEEDBACK AND LEARNERS' UPTAKE

Teacher feedback and learners’ uptake
T: if you aren’t?
St: seats.
T: “if there”, OK. “If”, so. Let’s change this. If there aren’t seats.
4.Correction or indication refers of incorrectness to any linguistic correction of a previous utterance
St: to travel?
T: No. Hang on. You didn’t...
5.Metalinguistic or questions related feedback to the well-formedness contains either of comments, the student’s information,
without explicitly providing the correct form. Metalinguistic comments utterance,
grammatical generally indicate metalanguage that there that is an refers error to somewhere the nature or of provides the error. some
T: when will you go
St: go
T: but I wa-, I need a conditional question.
3.3 Uptake
immediately In this follows study the the teacher’s term uptake feedback is used and to refer that constitutes “to a learner’s a reaction utterance in some that
way initial to utterance” the teacher’s (Lyster intention & Ranta, to 1997, draw attention p. 49). Uptake, to some then, aspect reveals of the the student’s
attempt to work on the feedback received. If there is no uptake, then there learner’s is topic
continuation, which is initiated by either the student or by the teacher.
4 RESULTS
the absolute With regard number to of students’ errors errors, produced it is by noteworthy students. that Because we are the not aim reporting
present paper is to show different kinds of feedback and their effect on learners’ of the
output, we will not be reporting on the different types of errors.
90 Linguagem em (Dis)curso, Tubarão, v. 4, n. 1, p. 81-96, jul./dez. 2003