An Analysis on Problems of Teacher Feedback in English Teaching

Abstract

Teacher feedback is an essential component of classroom communication, optimizing the teaching process, and achieving harmonious unity between teaching and learning. Therefore, teachers should timely update their teaching concepts, adopt different feedback modes in order to cultivate students’ learning interests, enhance their learning motivation, establish their confidence, stimulate their potential, and promote their comprehensive development. Based on an overview of the definition, types, and functions of teacher feedback, this paper analyzes the problems of English teacher classroom feedback in China and proposes corresponding optimizing strategies, including improving teachers’ feedback knowledge literacy, enhancing feedback usage ability, embodying the concept of “student-centered” and so on.