Feedback and the development of the oral skill

Abstract

The research had the purpose of determining how feedback improves the oral ability of students in the fifth semester of Pedagogy in National and Foreign Languages of the Technical University of Ambato, in addition to identifying the most used types of feedback and the best results to improve the skill. The study involved an investigation with a quantitative-quantitative approach of descriptive type and bibliographic and field modality that included 25 people; 22 of them were students and 3 language teachers, to whom different data collection instruments were applied, such as survey and interview, allowing to know relevant aspects of the feedback process in oral ability. After the development of the investigation, it is concluded that the types of feedback most used in oral capacity in students from the fifth semester of Pedagogy in National and Foreign Languages of the Technical University of Ambato are the corrective, which focuses on corrections, comments, clarifications, even sanctions at the academic level, but also the constructive one based on the negative aspects. In addition, the type of feedback that gives the best results is the constructive based on positive aspects because it gives value to the student's successes and generates motivation for learning