Do Gender Differences Affect Foreign Language Anxiety and Preferences for Oral Corrective Feedback?

Yıl 2020, Cilt: 13 Sayı: 3, 591 - 608, 21.07.2020

Vasfiye Geckin

Öz

This paper explores the extent gender differences affect foreign language anxiety and student beliefs about spoken corrective feedback. A random sample of 100 Turkish students (50 males, 50 females) who were pre-intermediate level learners of English as a foreign language at a state preparatory school in Turkey completed two questionnaires which measured their level of anxiety and beliefs. The female participants differed from the male participants in that they exhibited higher levels of anxiety, valued delayed feedback and preferred repetition more as the main error correction method. The males, on the other hand, rated elicitation as their favored method of correction and preferred to be given time to correct their errors themselves more than the females did. Both males and females viewed feedback, especially to their serious and individual errors, as a necessary component of the learning process and rated feedback given by the teacher more positively. As the take-home message, teachers need to be selective in their feedback choices and activities in reducing anxiety by taking gender differences in consideration.

Anahtar Kelimeler

foreign language anxiety, corrective feedback in speaking, gender effect

Teşekkür

I would like to thank Gönül Tuğba Akdağ, Çağdaş Kalafat, Seçil Baran, Melike Yılmaz Baştuğ and Bekir Ateş for help in data collection and of course Boğaziçi University School of Foreign Languages students who volunteered to take part in the study.

Cinsiyet Farklılıkları Yabancı Dil Kaygısını ve Sözlü Düzeltici Geribildirim Tercihlerini Etkiler Mi?

Öz

Bu çalışma, cinsiyet farklılıklarının yabancı dil kaygı düzeyi ve öğrencilerin sözlü düzeltici geri bildirim inanışları üzerindeki etkisinin boyutunu araştırmaktadır. Türkiye’deki bir devlet hazırlık okulunda yabancı dil olarak İngilizce öğrenen ön orta düzeydeki örneklemden rastgele seçilmiş 100 öğrenci (50 kadın, 50 erkek) kaygı düzeylerini ve inanışlarını ölçen iki anket cevaplamışlardır. Kadın katılımcılar, erkek katılımcılardan daha yüksek kaygı düzeyi göstermeleri, geciktirilmiş geri bildirime değer vermeleri ve tekrarlamayı ana düzeltici geri bildirim yöntemi olarak tercih etmeleri açısından ayrışmışlardır. Erkekler, öte yandan, söyletimi en çok istenen düzeltme yöntemi olarak değerlendirmişler ve kadınlara kıyasla hatalarını kendilerinin düzeltebilmeleri için zaman verilmesini tercih etmişlerdir. Hem erkek hem de kadın katılımcılar, geribildirimi, özellikle ciddi ve bireysel hatalarına verilen geribildirimi, öğrenme süreçleri için gerekli bir bileşen olarak görmüşler ve öğretmenin verdiği geri bildirimi daha olumlu değerlendirmişlerdir. Bu çalışmadan çıkarılacak ders, öğretmenlerin geribildirim ve kaygı azaltıcı etkinlik tercihlerinde cinsiyet farklılıklarını göz önünde bulundurarak seçici olmalarıdır. 

Anahtar Kelimeler

yabancı dil kaygısı, konuşmada sözlü düzeltici geribildirim, cinsiyet etkisi

Kaynakça

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