Learners’ oral corrective feedback perceptions and preferences in Thai as a foreign language tertiary setting

Abstract

The goal of this research was to investigate the existence of perceptions and preferences among East Asian undergraduate students of Thai. To fill this gap, ninety-nine learners having experience of studying Thai speaking courses at five universities completed an online questionnaire reporting on their recognitions and attitudes. The results indicated that recast was the most frequently perceived type of oral corrective feedback (OCF) that Thai as a foreign language (TFL) students were provided. Explicit correction was the most preferred technique in TFL teaching situations. In a speech, they inclined to be provided with the error correction in private places. Considering in terms of the nationalities, a post hoc analysis on a subset of the Chinese and the Korean learners suggested that some OCF opinions were similar; they were favoured by clarification request and repetition. They did not lean towards the inattention to error, peer correction, and error correction in public.