Teacher's feedback-effects on student's behaviour during English Language classroom lesson

This study examines the effects of teacher's feedback on students' behaviour. It is a case study  involving an English Language and a class of Semester 2 students. The techniques used to collect  data were video-recording and interviewing. I English Language lesson was video-recorded. After the  recording the teacher and a few students were interviewed. The interviews were audio-recorded.  The recordings of the lessons and the interviews were then transcribed. Analysis of the lessons  showed that the teacher provided feedback explicitly and implicitly. Explicit feedback was  expressed verbally and non-verbally. Verbal feedback comprised of that made linguistically as well  as non­ linguistically. Linguistic feedback given was categorized further into acceptance, non­  acceptance, check, elicitation, correction and opinion. The findings showed that teacher feedback  motivated students to participate in classroom discourse, encouraged students to think critically,  provided information to the students, guided students to correct their errors and encouraged  students to give opinions. As a result of teacher feedback students contributed information, confirmed information given contradicted