Giving feedback on writing

The first activity I'm going to analyse is a brochure created by the students to promote tourism in our country. This was part of a unit related to this topic and text type. They had time to research in order to have information to use according to the different parts of a brochure. I think that my feedback was very poor. I just circled or underlined the language patterns that I considered incorrect. I didn't provide the correct answer or talked to the students about it. I didn't give them the opportunity to defend or explain their language choices. I didn't help them to notice what were they doing wrong. The main reason for this lack of professionalism was time and motivation on my side. This is something important to consider, when the teacher is comfortable and motivated with a group, he or she will probably try different ways to guide the learners in a more personalized way. This is what happened but it is not a acceptable excuse. It was, as I mentioned before, my problem as a teacher. I hope this does not happen again.

The second activity I would like to present is the feedback provided for some literary commentaries written by a group of teenagers. They techniqued used in this case was mini-conferences with the students. I read their texts, underlined and took notes in order to explain and discuss with the students other ways to express their ideas or may be reorganize the content or add or leave out information. In this case, I had a very good relationship with the learners and the classrrom environment was very positive. I could notice that the conversation with each student was beneficial.