Resumen de Video feedback and Foreign Language Anxiety in online pronunciation tasks
Sidney Martin, Ibis Marlene Álvarez Valdivia, Anna Espasa
Despite many studies about video feedback in both face-to-face and online settings, little research has been carried out exploring how this technique is perceived by students learning the pronunciation of specifc sounds in a foreign language. Adopting grounded theory as the methodology and a dialogic approach as the conceptual framework, the present study shows that anxious students welcome video feedback.
The design of a learning activity for students to practise a specifc problematic pronunciation target in English, carried out in an e-learning environment, more specifcally in an online English language course, is described. The results show three aspects of teacher’s corrective video feedback, perceived as more relevant: the Emotional input of feedback, referred to the feelings around the feedback delivery which foster dialogue, closeness, motivation and empathy; Enhanced understanding, related to the clarity, the usability and personalization of the feedback; and feedback engagement, which are the conditions favouring agentic engagement that involves the students sharing responsibility for making feedback processes efective. Implications related to video feedback practices are also discussed.
