(Artikel) ORAL CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK IN SPEAKING CLASS: ITS FREQUENCY, STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS, AND PREFERENCE

The objective of this qualitative study is to investigate kinds of corrective feedback used
by the English lecturer in speaking class at the English Department in one of the private
University in Jember. Further, this research also investigates how the students' perception
and preference lying on their speaking proficiency toward the corrective feedback which
is dominantly used by the lecturer. Based on the analysis taken from a questionnaire given
to 30 students of the English Language Education department, it was found that (1)
recast, repetition and clarification requests are commonly used in the class. In addition
(2) according to the students' perceptions, repetition is the effective feedback that engages
the students to improve their speaking skills. Last (3) the students prefer to get repetition
and explicit correction as the feedback in the speaking class.
Keywords: Oral Corrective Feedback, its frequency, Students’ perception, Students’
Preference