“I like how you begin…” Compliment or feedback? TEs’ subjective positive assessments of student teachers’ microteaching

IF 2.1 2区 文学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Mika Ishino , Eunseok Ro
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Providing feedback on student teachers’ (ST) microteaching is an essential practice for teacher educators (TE). While many researchers have focused on how TEs mitigate the tension involved in providing negative assessments, far fewer have examined how TEs undertake positive assessments in their feedback interaction. In this paper, we focus on a particular format of positive feedback, namely subjective positive assessment (e.g., “I like how you begin”), and illustrate its delicate nature and social functions within pedagogical discourse. The data are sourced from 22 post-microteaching feedback sessions in English language teacher education programs in Korea and Japan. Analyses of 40 instances of TEs’ subjective positive assessments reveal two types of accounting orientations, namely a) grounding a TE’s first-hand observation, and b) grounding a ‘general teaching principle.’ In the former type, the subjective assessments are grounded in the ST’s first-hand experience of the ST’s microteaching (e.g., "when you showed us X.."), as the TEs attended the ST’s microteaching as an audience. In the latter, subjective assessments are grounded in general teaching principles. In both types, the STs show their understanding of the TEs’ subjective assessment as institutional ‘feedback.’ By comparing with deviant cases, we argue that positive feedback is delivered through the careful design and sequential positioning of subjective assessments. Our findings underscore the delicate nature of positive feedback and its significant role in shaping the pedagogical discourse in teacher education.
“我喜欢你开头的方式……”赞美还是反馈?教师对实习教师微格教学的主观积极评价
对学生教师的微格教学进行反馈是教师教育工作者的一项重要实践。虽然许多研究人员关注的是TEs如何缓解提供负面评估时的紧张感,但很少有人研究TEs如何在反馈互动中进行积极评估。在本文中,我们关注一种特殊形式的积极反馈,即主观的积极评估(例如,“我喜欢你这样开始”),并说明其微妙的性质和教学话语中的社会功能。数据来源于韩国和日本英语教师教育项目的22次微教学后反馈会议。对40个教师主观积极评价实例的分析揭示了两种类型的会计取向,即a)基于教师的第一手观察,b)基于一般教学原则。在前一种类型中,主观评估基于教师对教师微型教学的第一手经验(例如,“当您向我们展示X时……”)。,作为观摩者参加科技科技署的微型教学。在后者中,主观评价是基于一般教学原则的。在这两种情况下,技术服务提供者都把技术服务提供者的主观评估理解为机构的反馈。“通过与偏差案例的比较,我们认为积极的反馈是通过精心设计和主观评估的顺序定位来传递的。”我们的研究结果强调了积极反馈的微妙本质及其在塑造教师教育教学话语中的重要作用。
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期刊介绍: Linguistics and Education encourages submissions that apply theory and method from all areas of linguistics to the study of education. Areas of linguistic study include, but are not limited to: text/corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, functional grammar, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, conversational analysis, linguistic anthropology/ethnography, language acquisition, language socialization, narrative studies, gesture/ sign /visual forms of communication, cognitive linguistics, literacy studies, language policy, and language ideology.
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