Teachers’ Response to Serbian EFL Learners’ Pronunciation Errors

• Authors: Danica Jerotijević
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The present paper aims at discovering what type of feedback Serbian teachers resort to when correcting their students’ mispronounced words or utterances. To accomplish the previously stated aim of the study, we conducted a survey investigating teachers’ preferences for specific types of corrective feedback and the results indicate that the most frequently employed type of feedback among Serbian EFL teachers is recast, whereas the least preferred one is direct or explicit correction. The total of 55 teachers from primary, secondary schools and colleges participated in the survey.

Keywords

EN

corrective feedback; EFL; pronunciation errors

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 99-112

Dates

published

2013-03-01

online

2013-02-22

Contributors

author

Danica Jerotijević

• University of Kragujevac

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2013-0008